Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 10:13:32 07/27/03
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On July 27, 2003 at 11:32:54, Joost Buijs wrote: >Vincent, > >Personally I think the whole Brutus project is a little bit outdated. I agree. If Brutus wins this world champs he would have won on a supercomputer with a software program too! >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. The project is quite cool. I might buy a card under the condition that it is the SAME like the thing he plays with :) >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. A good sales organisation can sell it without problems. If they just sell a small part of what Fritz sells then they will earn tens of millions. >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. My guess is that general purpose processors will relatively get faster than brutus will be in hardware. >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. Bandwidth is not important. Latency is. I doubt latency from PCI-X is much faster! >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. I couldn't have put it better than that! >Groeten, > >Joost
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