Author: Walter Faxon
Date: 17:13:03 01/13/06
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On January 13, 2006 at 13:54:32, Majd Al-Ansari wrote: >On January 12, 2006 at 20:20:07, Geo Disher wrote: > >>I am sure someone has asked this before but is anyone planning to put their >>chess program on the new Playstation 3. They are talking 200 gigaflops which >>would be interesting to see. Again sorry if this has been asked but I could not >>find the link > > >Theoretically it is possible to make this graphic based hardware work as a chess >engine. The problem is that you would require specific code and software to do >that. I don't think that there is enough money to be made to make such a >project feasible. I read somewhere where someone was doing this to some VGA >cards. I also read somewhere were ATI had some special beta software (driver) >code that allows your ATI video cards to do amazing things. IIRC, Bob Hyatt mentioned in a posting here that someone had ported his Cray Blitz program (not Crafty) to a video card and competed with it on ICC some time ago. The post did not have much more detail than that but if the guy could be found... -Walter
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