Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 10:17:01 01/23/00
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On January 23, 2000 at 12:52:29, Albert Silver wrote: >In hardware, I could be considered at best as an enlightened know-nothing, so I >won't pretend to be entering the argument here. I'm curious though. Is the SP >really no different from a PC except that it is bigger (and faster)? I mean take In terms of running a chess program, the SP is the same as several PCs connected by an insanely fast network. DB was an SP, but it also had a few hundred custom chips for computer chess. Each chip ran ~3,600 times faster than a general-purpose CPU. Here's the issue at hand: The DB _algorithm_ can be implemented in software and run on a PC. It would be on the order of 10,000 times slower, but it would still do exactly the same stuff. (And it turns out that 10,000 times slower is still fast enough to play a good game of chess.) -Tom
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