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Subject: Re: When will a pc be as fast as Deep Blue?

Author: Ed Panek

Date: 08:40:46 02/29/00

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On February 29, 2000 at 08:42:36, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On February 29, 2000 at 01:13:38, Georg Langrath wrote:
>
>>I tink that you can measure the speed of a analyze in nods per second. When will
>>a pc be comabarable with Deep Blue with that increasing in hardware every year
>>that is now? I think that it must be so some time in future.
>>
>>Georg
>
>
>Not easy to answer, but I would guess that the speed of deep blue is about
>1,000 times faster than the fastest program of today, based on the fastest
>program going 1M nodes per second, while DB could peak at 1B nodes per
>second.  It averaged about 200M, but then it also had some complex eval stuff
>that would slow that 1M nps program down by a factor of 5-10 probably
>
>If you assume 1000x, with a doubling of machine speed every year (which is
>very optimistic) then it will take about 10 years to catch up.
>
>all of that analysis has lots of assumptions, however...



Unless there is some incredible watershed breakthrough in processor technology

Ed



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