Chess

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> 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...)

Which is a very large PC indeed.  Far and away waaay above average.

Peace...  Sridhar