Author: Vincent Vega
Date: 22:01:38 02/11/00
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On February 11, 2000 at 22:58:30, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >Let's say you just paid $1,000,000 for a 10GHz Athlon. You put an ATI Rage Pro >video card in it. You run Quake 3 and get < 10 frames per second. > >Then you go to a garage sale and get a 200MHz Pentium. You put a TNT2 video card >in it. You run Quake 3 and get 20 frames per second. > >What you're proposing is pretty much like playing Q3 on the Athlon... > >-Tom No. This is only the case if only chess algorithms were serial algorithms. But that's not true. How much will be the penalty - that's an open question. I think it can be made reasonable. What I'm proposing is instead of spending $1,000,000 for a multi-processor machine to spend $10,000 on hardware (or use the school's hardware for free :-)but develop good algorithms and use the power of the Net. Look at these stats from SETI@home: Last 24 Hours Total CPU time: 1040.82 years You'd need just a fraction of that to get a pretty powerful system.
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