Author: Greg Lindahl
Date: 20:27:41 12/22/99
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On December 22, 1999 at 20:43:10, Dann Corbit wrote: >Look, I think we *ALL* got off on the wrong foot on this one. Why don't we all >just wipe the slate clean and start over. I'm all for that. >Hi. My name is Dann. I understand you have an interesting idea for creating >chess engines using FPGA's and a large cluster of cheap hardware components. >Why don't you tell us more about it, and perhaps give us some background on the >technology that *you* offer. My name's Greg. I'm a cluster computing guy, and I can build clusters of conventional processors which are quite similar to the IBM SP2. I also have some industry contacts that might be able to sponsor hardware for a big chess engine. I really have no idea what the best design for such an engine would be, but I can't imagine getting funding to do an ASIC, so it would have to be FPGA-based (which would be a novel approach) or on straight processors (which is being done by a bazillion people already.) What I would like to know, first, is who's interested in working on this. I don't have a design, I don't have a clue beyond parallel processing in general, and the object here isn't so much as to educate me as it is to hopefully get a group of people who are intersted in exploring the topic. -- g
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