Author: J. Wesley Cleveland
Date: 12:17:51 12/15/99
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On December 15, 1999 at 14:51:13, Will Singleton wrote: >On December 15, 1999 at 14:39:18, Greg Lindahl wrote: > >>I'm interested in coordinating an effort to build the next >>world-champion chess program. FPGA technology has advanced since Deep >>Blue's construction such that replicating its architecture is now >>inexpensive. All you need is a cluster guy (me), a pile of FPGAs >>(corporate sponsor), someone who knows how to route a board evaluation >>chip, and someone interested in building a message-passing chess >>program which uses the board evaluation chips as an accellerator. >> >>In the tradition of Deep Blue, I'm fairly clueless about chess. >> >>Unlike Deep Blue, I plan on making this engine available for more than >>just a few games, so that its behavior can be studied. >> >>If you are interested in this project, please drop me email. I'm >>especially looking for a person/group seriously interested in >>constructing the overall program. I can provide the cluster & support, >>find the FPGA corporate sponsor, and find someone to route the chip. >> >>-- greg > >I'm pretty clueless too. What's a cluster guy? >How about FPGA? Field programmable gate array. Programmable logic which could be set up to do move generation and evaluation *very* quickly, i.e. roughly equivalent to the special purpose chips in DB. >What does routing a chip mean? The process of programming specific logic into the FPGA. >Why are you interested in this? > >Will
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