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Subject: Re: 64-way Parallel FP Chip

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:41:17 10/14/03

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On October 14, 2003 at 10:07:10, Ricardo Gibert wrote:

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>http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,60791,00.html
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>Can this be productively used in a chess program?
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It doesn't look promising at first glance.  It seems to be more of an
"attached processor" that you can stream data to and have the thing
do some sort of floating point operation repeatedly to the values as
they stream in and out.

IE several vendors have done this over the years and the things do
well for programs that massage large arrays of data doing numerical
computations.  But for non-vector applications, they don't help at
all.

Note that I am not 100% sure of what they are doing as the details
were sketchy, but first glance says "good for math, useless for
chess."




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