Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 04:43:31 07/27/03
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On July 26, 2003 at 18:11:31, Slater Wold 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. > >Chrilly already has a project with a university to do 100+ PCI Brutus cards. > >It's hard to 'see' what your HW is doing, although Chrilly and Hsu had/have >educated guesses. Chrilly's latest 'guess' was 3M nps. Junior & Fritz get more >than that on pretty standard PCs nowadays. Even Crafty could get that nowadays. > I truly believe that Brutus' eval is not as complex or as refined as *any* of >those. Crafty is about what you make when you program for 1 day. I am sure brutus has more than that. In fact chrilly told something about it in paderborn. You can compare Brutus more with an old DIEP version (but then using simple rules) or with Hiarcs and a very good tuning than you can compare it with Fritz. Fritz really has *little*. But of course also way more than Crafty. About double what crafty has. >But the same technology that makes CPUs faster, make FPGAs bigger & faster too.
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