Author: Ingo Lindam
Date: 16:26:17 07/11/03
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On July 11, 2003 at 13:27:34, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On July 10, 2003 at 01:53:26, Derek Paquette wrote: > >>Just read a great post by the author of DIEP, and how he is getting an >>Incredible machine, a godly machine I should say, now really, >>Would a human even have a chance in hell? its going to be dozens of times faster >>than Deep Blue >>I know that speed isn't everything, but when you are looking 45ply ahead.... >>I put all bets on the machine with 500 processors >> >>what do the rest of you think? > > >What I think, based on _years_ of experience, is that hardware is only a _part_ >of >the equation. Fast hardware with buggy program produces bad results. I have >done >this more than once myself. And no matter how fast you search, if you have bugs >in the search or in the evaluation or anywhere else, you just search garbage >very >quickly. I could point to the 1985 ACM event where we had the best hardware, >but >a significant evaluation bug (in Cray Blitz). We did poorly. I don't think the hardware will be enough to offset the commercial engine advantage in terms of >overall quality and lack of serious bugs. Well, I am sure Vincent will hunting the bugs as the fox the geese in spite of having a really big machine. But ofcourse, as true as trivial, "hardware is only a part of the equation". Internette Gruesse, Ingo
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