Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 04:37:31 07/27/03
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On July 27, 2003 at 06:31:58, Jonas Bylund wrote: >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. > >The way i understand it, the whole idea with running FPGA is that no matter how >much knowledge you add, you won't lose speed, will that not more than compensate >for the PC programs gain through faster hardware? Quote from Chrilly Donninger Paderborn, februari a few years ago (98 or my memory says 99 now): "I do not believe in knowledge at all Vincent. You are taking the wrong path. Nimzo in fact only grew stronger when i REMOVED knowledge from it". Someone who always follows simple solutions i could not possibly believe he manages to put a lot of knowledge in hardware. Where 'a lot' is measured by 2300 FM standards. Trivially for 1100 beginners like Uri 'a lot' is like 1 day of work even for Chrilly. Best regards, Vincent >Also again if i understand correctly, you can make Brutus run on more than 1 >chip, simply by adding more FPGA cards? > >Jonas
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