Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: What Would it take to Hardware-ize Crafty?

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 14:47:56 02/17/04

Go up one level in this thread


About $50,000 and 2 years.


On February 17, 2004 at 16:56:46, Bob Durrett wrote:

>
>If one ignores the many anticipated objections to doing this research, then what
>would it take?
>
>I can see the following process:
>
>(1)  A list of blocks of code which could be "hardware-ized" is made and the
>list ordered in order of decreasing expected benefit.
>
>(2)  Then, the powers that be would decide which blocks to do that to.
>
>(3)  Then it would be done.  Testing and tuning would follow.
>
>(4)  Then a match would be set up with Kasparov.
>
>(5)  Etceteras.
>
>By "hardware-izing" I mean creating a chip which could input it's input data,
>process that data, and output that data all within the time of a few clock
>cycles of a modern microprocessor chip.
>
>QUESTIONS:
>
>Which block of Crafty code would be chosen first?  How much benefit to expect?
>
>Same questions for second block of code.
>
>Etceteras for the rest of the code until nothing is left.
>
>Bob D.



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.