Author: blass uri
Date: 18:25:38 05/13/99
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On May 13, 1999 at 18:47:07, Dann Corbit wrote: >On May 13, 1999 at 11:52:35, Rajen Gupta wrote: > >>We should all be rejoicing.all the chess computer message boards have been >>concerned with attaining the HOLY GRAIL of a world championship level desktop >>machine which is also relatively affordable. We are now about to get it in the >>next 3-4 years or so(IF ever). REJOICE (By that time of course there will be >>multi processor IA 64 Intel machines) which just might be able to stand upto >>this monster! Have no fear the competition will be just as strong as it is now. >Multiple IA 64 chips (which are down the road) will be about where the DEC 21264 >is today. You can buy a 5 foot tall DEC NT server with 14 of those. I think >that a single Hsu chip will still toast it (if it really achieves 30M NPS). >Let's do some quick back-of-the envelope math: > >Crafty on a PII 300 gets about 160K NPS. We'll call it 200K just to be >generous. It already has 64 bit integer operations, but we'll say the new chip >is twice as fast. We'll also quadruple the bus speed and assume that we can >operate at full tilt. That give us 200K * 8 = 1.6M NPS/chip. With 14 of them >we get 22.4M NPS (assuming 0 SMP loss). We are on the same order of magnitude, >so given a few favorable engineering breaks, we might actually achieve 30M NPS >with a machine like that. Now, consider the cost of this beast verses Hsu's >chip. Ouch. > >Compete? I don't think so. You can compete if you find a good idea to do the programs 1000 times faster by not looking at illogical lines. I believe that it is possible Uri
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