Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 21:53:52 02/02/99
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On February 03, 1999 at 00:37:47, Matt Frank wrote: [snip] >Deeper Blue (circa 1997 match) hit about 200,000,000 nodes per sec. If this new >monster you speak of could hit 2,000,000,000 per sec. And they could port the >same software to this new creature, with no significant loss of efficiency, the >new (Deepest Blue :-}) would be rated at least 200 elo points higher than it's >1997 predecessor. Formidable indeed!! Number mixing here is apples and oranges. Two billion operations per second is not the same thing as two billion chess nodes per second. Look at Crafty -- the NPS figure is far different from the CPU MHz rate, and Crafty is a fast searcher. If they have updated the Chess CPU chips to get two billion chess positions per second, then that is another story. The updated CPU's and I/O bandwidth would improve the machine, certainly. But not in the manner that some may be thinking.
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