Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 13:13:25 12/16/99
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On December 16, 1999 at 15:19:01, Greg Lindahl wrote: >Don't get caught up in the straw-man argument here -- there's no reason that >someone using FPGAs would not put functions on the FPGA more suitable for FPGAs. I'm only a 3rd year EE student, but I just don't see how you could do that. >Things have changed since DB: processors are faster, the busses have higher >bandwidth and lower latency (DB was MCA, yes?), the interconnect I use is only >as fast as DB's IBM SP (albeit with lower latency). These factors all mean that >a different design is likely. The general-purpose computer played a relatively insignificant role in Deep Blue. It doesn't really matter if processors are faster or busses have higher bandwidth. It's the chips that search 200M nodes per second with an incredibly complex evaluation function. -Tom
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