Chess

[Austin Pass]

On 15 Apr 2008, at 23:04, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> I don't know.  One PC?  It would be a very large PC.  Pushing the  
> boundaries of what a PC is.
>
> Peace...  Sridhar

I don't know Sridhar, PC's are pretty fruity these days.

I know it's like comparing apples and oranges, but Deep Blue sans  
specialist chess hardware was rated at 11.38 Gigaflops (Linpack?  
Double precision floating point? Only Wikipedia knows.....)  My 8 core  
MacPro downstairs allegedly churns through 81 GFlops/cpu in Linpack  
"Dense Floating Point Operations".  A figure often bandied about  
regarding double precision floating point Linpack score on the Sony  
Playstation 3 is 24 GFlops.

-Austin.