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Subject: Re: Chess pc program on super computer

Author: Mark jones

Date: 03:18:35 08/04/05

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On August 04, 2005 at 05:22:58, Bernhard Bauer wrote:

>On August 04, 2005 at 02:37:20, Mark jones wrote:
>
>>Can you imagine how would Junior,shredder,fritz would have played if they where
>>deployed on A super computer like this:
>>http://www.top500.org/sublist/System.php?id=7605
>>
>>If this were possible not only it would kill all the humans I think it would
>>have crushed Hydra to...
>>What do you thisk about it? And was there an attempt to deploy an pc program
>>on asuper computer?
>
>Your link gives:
>
>Processor:
> PowerPC 440 700 MHz (2.8 GFlops)
>
>so  Junior,shredder,fritz  would perform quite normal.
>Please note that the word supercomputer is misleading. Supercomputers are
>special purpose computers. They favore floating point operations.
>
>Kind regards
>Bernhard
I dont think the word "normal" is the right word.
I mean,Can you Imagine one of this programs run on 65536 proccesors?!
And I belive its not so unrealistic. I know IBM willing to rent this
supercomputer for 10,000$ a weak.



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