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Subject: Re: 64-way Parallel FP Chip

Author: Gerd Isenberg

Date: 11:13:08 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?

I don't know, simular hardware ressources may be more productive for chess, if
implemented as hyperthreading devices. I guess it's a kind of further
development of SSE and AltiVec technology. With huge register files
(N * 64 * 64|128|256-bit?) and probably SIMD-wise integer instructions
(including popcount?) and fast memory interface, i can imagine that it is
usefull for a lot of nice things, like some eval passes, e.g. a first square
wise and a final scalar product pass. And fill-attack generation, e.g. square
wise in all 16 directions with a specialiced dumb fill routine.

Gerd



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