15 Apr
2008
15 Apr
'08
3:49 p.m.
On Tuesday 15 April 2008, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
Austin Pass wrote:
You can get a PC with 32 cores in it right now, which would handily beat
any stack of 30 POWER or POWER2 boxes many many times over. The custom
logic on MCA boards in Deep Blue is another matter completely.
(Eight socket quad core opteron...)
Pat
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On 15 Apr 2008, at 18:34, scheefj at netscape.net
wrote:
I don't know. One PC? It would be a very large PC. Pushing the
boundaries of what a PC is. Thoughts on chess games? Would a Deep Blue
emulator/simulator be
vintage? The original computer is more than ten years old. How
fast would it be on a modern PC?
Somewhere I should have a DOS version of Chess Master.
I only play using really lousy chess games because I lose too soon
in the "good" ones.
Jim
Whilst a modern PC would match the 30-node RS/6000 cluster for
GFlops, Deep Blue featured some specialist custom hardware - 480
"special" VLSI chips if Wikipedia is to be believed.