Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 17:27:23 03/26/99
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On March 20, 1999 at 14:39:32, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On March 20, 1999 at 13:20:46, Mark Young wrote: > >>I like the concept of this kind of testing, I must disagree with the name Chess >>2010. Only a 20X speed up(3 min a move Vs 60 min a move) from now to the year >>2010 seems pretty unlikely, I would bet money before the year 2010, we have top >>of the line PC machines that will do much better then 20X the speed of a PII 450 >>today. > >And you will have more than one of them in your machine. > >You may even have more than one of these machines. > >Or maybe you will be able to efficiently use your friend's, as well. Or maybe the net really will be the computer and resources like distributed.net will be available to any Joe on the street to utilize. Imagine one billion computers on-line, each capable of perhaps 1 teraflop. You could solve some fairly difficult problems in such a scenario even with a tiny fraction of the potential computational power.
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