Author: Alastair Scott
Date: 00:56:21 07/27/03
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On July 26, 2003 at 17:22:02, Russell Reagan wrote: >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. PCI cards are not for mocking! It is believed (as they say :) that rather a lot of what GCHQ, the NSA and like organisations do isn't done with Crays or similar behemoths; it's done with standard PCs running very specialised chips on ... PCI cards. (I remember reading somewhere that the NSA has its own [chip!] fabrication plant). Alastair
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