Author: Peter Hegger
Date: 09:00:28 06/13/99
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[snip] Hard data: Beat kasparov in 1997 using 480 of thse things. Current version >of the chip searches at 2-2.4M positions per second per chip. Using an old >fab process. Commercial version (.18 micron I think) will search at an >estimated 36M nodes per second per chip. He could possible (for high-end >users) put maybe 4-8 of these chips on a PCI card. Which would be about as >fast as the old deep blue hardware. Whether the PCI bus could sustain the >bandwidth to handle multiple cards is unknown to me... but with search tuning >it could possible work... [snip] Bob, as I've been following the DB jr. threads I've seen it mentioned that 4 chips per PCI card would be the max. If 8 were a reality this would be very exciting as it would eclipse DB 97 in search speed. Sorry, I don't have access to IEEE journal but is this where the figure of 8 possible chips per PCI card was mentioned? You also mentioned in another thread that DB jr. would be 400 points stronger than any micro programs of today. Was that assessment based on a 1 chip machine or the fully blown 8 chip screamer? Thanks Peter
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