Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 17:57:46 11/25/03
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On November 25, 2003 at 20:03:11, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >On November 25, 2003 at 01:23:27, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On November 25, 2003 at 00:17:00, Derek Paquette wrote: >> >>>What KN/S is Brutus getting anyone know? >>>Or how far is it searching, or how thorough etc? >> >>From: >>http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?330084 >>8 PC cluster, with hardware acceleration. >>2.5 million NPS per card * 8 cards = 20M NPS (less threading loss, which is >>probably considerable). >> >>Might be twice that if there are two cards per machine (it isn't clear to me). > >Listening to Vincent commentate Diep games on ICC, he's been asked about Brutus >a lot. He has said that Brutus does some 600k "software nodes" a second, where >each software node consists of a 2-3 ply hardware search. > >I don't know how accurate this is, but I would assume Vincent has gotten >first-hand knowledge from someone about it and that he wouldn't make this up. I wonder what sort of NPS Vincent is getting with a bazillion processors (doing his little part for global warming -- but then again, we're scheduled for another ice age according to the experts, so he may have just saved civilization). ;-)
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