Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:28:31 05/17/99
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On May 17, 1999 at 00:36:39, James B. Shearer wrote: >On May 14, 1999 at 09:52:14, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On May 14, 1999 at 01:38:11, Gregor Overney wrote: > > <snip> > >>> >>>2) You still need to write the correct algorithms to make this chip work. And >>>those algorithms are pretty complex (see evaluation functions etc.) >>> >> >>But it has _already_ been done. All that is left is to use the "new" fab >>process to increase density and clock speed.. DB's chess chips only ran at >>20-24 megahertz. running that up to 16x faster seems quite easy with todays >>silicon capabilities as that would still be a modest < 400mhz processor. > > This assumes: >1) Hsu's startup has the right to use the IBM deep blue code. He's already publicly stated that he is doing this, so I would assume that permission has already been granted? >2) The IBM deep blue code (written for the big endian power chips) can be >trivially ported to the (little endian) Intel chips used in PCs. > I would doubt both of these assumptions. > James B. Shearer (2) is a non-issue. IE 'crafty' is much more 'endian' aware than DB, yet it runs on big-endian and little-endian machines with no problems at all. The PCI interface could 'correct' the endian-order of the data without the chip ever knowing...
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