Chess

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Tuesday 15 April 2008, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> Austin Pass wrote:
> > On 15 Apr 2008, at 18:34, scheefj at netscape.net wrote:
> >> 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.
>
> I don't know.  One PC?  It would be a very large PC.  Pushing the
> boundaries of what a PC is.

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
-- 
Purdue University Research Computing ---  http://www.rcac.purdue.edu/
The Computer Refuge                  ---  http://computer-refuge.org