Author: Roger D Davis
Date: 16:43:41 12/25/03
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On December 25, 2003 at 13:38:50, William Kerr wrote: >On December 25, 2003 at 13:12:10, Bob Durrett wrote: > >> >>Suppose you were much richer than Bill Gates and wanted to make the biggest, >>meanest, most fantastic chess computer. Suppose you wanted a dedicated chess >>computer so big that it topped the list of the World's biggest computers. What >>would it look like? >> >>The problem IBM had with Deep Blue was that they didn't want to spend BIG money >>on the computer. But you could be different! Be extravagant! >> >>Special purpose computers are optimized for a very limited purpose, by >>definition. For example, if it were desired to create a special purpose >>computer to model the Earth's atmosphere, globally, and if it were desired that >>the model be "high fidelity" and capable of modelling repid events such as >>tornatos and lightning, then the structure and operation of that computer and >>it's software would be optimized for that purpose and would never be used for >>any other purpose. It, I suspect, would not look very much like a >>general-purpose computer. >> >>What if you were **rich** and wanted to make a really huge chess research >>machine that would blow everybody's imagination? >> >>This is a call for brilliant ideas! [If there is no response, you know what >>that'll mean. : ) ] >> >>Bob D. > >I would build the fastest computer instead of the biggest computer. This fastest >computer would would be so fast that it could calculate the answer to Life the >Universt and Everything in 6 seconds instead of seven and a half million years >that it took Deep Thought computer. I would then load Peter Jennings original >"Microchess" Program (modified to go to deeper depths of course)and pit it >against the best commercial / freeware chess programs. Of course these programs >would all be checkmated in under 17 moves. > >Just my thoughts. >Your milage may vary. > >Bill The world's fastest computer would calculate the answer to the meaning of Life in six seconds, and on the 7th second, it's CPU would idle. ;) Roger
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