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Subject: Re: Dedicated Physics processor, Chess use?

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 10:07:31 12/26/05

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On December 26, 2005 at 12:13:18, Joshua Shriver wrote:

>I came across this website and wondered if any of you found it interesting.
>
>http://www.ageia.com/products/physx.html
>
>It's a dedicated processor geared toward particle physics. Not sure how well
>that would apply to chess, but if it could be utilized, then adding a couple of
>them to a box and using a mutithreaded engine that utilizes it could be fun.

The general purpose CPUs that are in normal PC's are quite well fit for computer
chess. (Or actually the reverse: chessprograms are extremely well adapted to
them).

Much better to have several of those than some special purpose thing.

--
GCP



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