Author: Greg Lazarou
Date: 19:01:32 05/13/99
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On May 13, 1999 at 21:25:38, blass uri wrote: > >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 And we know that this is possible, because humans do it all the time... Kasparov and other GMs are 1000s of times slower than today's programs and through better knowledge and understanding they can hold their own. So super fast hardware like this could force the software developers more seriously onto the knowledge bandwagon... that could be very exciting... Greg
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