Author: Joost Buijs
Date: 08:32:54 07/27/03
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Vincent, Personally I think the whole Brutus project is a little bit outdated. Chrilly said in one of his interviews that Brutus on a single FPGA card has problems with the top programs on multi processor systems, that's why they are developing BrutusP. In my opinion this is just being done to try to win the world championchip. If they manage to win this event, it will be nice advertisement and a lot of these Brutus cards will be sold. The people won't realise that a single Brutus card from let's say $500 will run at the same level as the other top engines on moderate hardware. It is true that more knowledge can be added without additional slowdown, but as you said it needs bigger FPGA's so the price will go up. If the clock frequency of the FPGA increases, a faster interface bus is needed. Fortunately the PCI bus will be replaced with PCI express in the not so far future, this bus runs at 8 GBps, compare this to 133 MBps for the standard PCI bus. If Chrilly manages to increase the playing strength of Brutus by adding more knowledge, this would be very interesting, but tuning all these parameters will be a hell of a job. I wonder if this can be done. In the mean time the level of the software only engines will go up as well, within three years a standard uni processor PC will easely run at 4000-6000 knps. Groeten, Joost
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