Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 12:33:19 12/06/99
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On December 06, 1999 at 12:42:03, Pete R. wrote:
>IBM announced plans to develop a machine 1000 times more powerful than Deep
>Blue, to be used to model protein folding. Now the comparison to DB is a bit
>artificial since DB used custom chess chips. This new one ("Blue Gene") will
>have a million+ processors and perform a quadrillion operations per second. The
>question is, if IBM made a similar investment in a new chess monster, how much
>stronger than DB2 would it be in chess terms? A thousand fold increase would be
>what, an additional 6 ply search in the same time? What ply depth would it
>typically get to in 3 minutes? 20+? If it had a million of Hsu's latest
>processors it might even be more than a 1000 fold increase. Just musing. I
>think IBM could easily build a machine that would retain the World Champ title
>against humans indefinitely.
Whenever IBM releases a new instance of that supercomputer, they will compare it
with the one DB ran on. Last time the wire services picked it up, which is
insane.
bruce
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