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Subject: Re: Status of Brutus?

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 14:22:02 07/26/03

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On July 26, 2003 at 16:25:37, O. Veli wrote:

>Since it is hardware, can
>we expect to be stronger than top software?

I would expect it to be slower than top software, because cpu improvements
happen so quickly, and FPGA programming (from what I've heard) is not a simple
task. If he spends another two years working on it before releasing it (as
Slater said), just imagine how much faster the cpus will be by then.

If you're talking about something massively parallel like Deep Blue, that is one
thing, but a single PCI card? I doubt that is going to do any better than break
even with top of the line hardware, so why bother? IBM threw so much hardware at
the problem that desktop cpu improvements wouldn't catch up for a LONG time, but
a single PCI card doesn't seem to be worth the trouble of programming the thing,
because desktop/server cpus will probably outperform it before too long.



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