Author: Matt Frank
Date: 13:25:47 02/03/99
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On February 03, 1999 at 00:53:52, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. Agreed. I was refering to nodes per sec. Matt Frank
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