Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 15:17:40 07/26/03
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On July 26, 2003 at 17:22:02, Russell Reagan wrote: >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. You're comparing apples and oranges here. You're deriding something because it's a "single PCI card" but you could put a DB chip on a single PCI card, run it at ~25MHz, and it would search 2M NPS and possibly do quite well vs. commercial programs. And this is an ancient chip. FHH says that shrunk to 0.18um (not even 90nm or 130nm) a single chip on a single PCI card would be faster than Deep Blue 1. -Tom
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