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Subject: Re: Chess pc program on super computer

Author: Bernhard Bauer

Date: 04:43:04 08/04/05

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On August 04, 2005 at 06:18:35, Mark jones wrote:

>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.

As I said Junior,shredder,fritz  would perform quite normal.
IMHO they use about zero floating point operations.
They are not good at many processors (>100).
For diep you may read Vincent's comment in that thread.
BTW comments like yours come up regularly. May be people like to dream.

Kind regards
Bernhard



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