Re:Open Letter from Feng-hsiung Hsu, one of the main program...
by smanek on Thursday May 28, 2009 @03:46AM
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Deep Blue '97, which beat Kasparov, was a: "RS/6000 SP Thin P2SC-based system with 30-nodes, with each node containing a 120 MHz P2SC microprocessor for a total of 30, enhanced with 480 special purpose VLSI chess chips." (from Wikipedia)
I'd be interested to know what exactly those VLSI chips contained ... My hunch is that a few dozen modern FPGAs should be able to match a few hundred ASICs from over a decade ago. Then it shouldn't cost more than ~$10K for enough hardware.
Hsu could easily bootstrap that sort of machine. Then, after winning a World Computer Chess Championship, he would be in a much better position to issue a challenge to Kasporov.
Re:Open Letter from Feng-hsiung Hsu, one of the main program...
by shard on Thursday May 28, 2009 @06:12AM
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It depends. Having designed medium sized VLSI ASICs over a decade ago and worked with FPGAs recently, I'd have to say that it may still take several FPGAs to equal one ASIC.
I'd be interested to know what exactly those VLSI chips contained ... My hunch is that a few dozen modern FPGAs should be able to match a few hundred ASICs from over a decade ago. Then it shouldn't cost more than ~$10K for enough hardware.
Hsu could easily bootstrap that sort of machine. Then, after winning a World Computer Chess Championship, he would be in a much better position to issue a challenge to Kasporov.