Re: CPUs at 30 Ghz in the year 2005

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From: Ed Seedhouse
Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 16:21

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"Hussman" <dfhussey1@homenospan.com> wrote:

>But what about parallel processing?  If you are examining 1e9 positions a
>second, your numbers dwindle real quickly.

Well since 1^n = 1 "1e9" positions per second equals 1 position per second.

Now if you mean 10 to the 9th power positions per second it will take you
10^50/10^9 seconds, or 10^41 seconds or approximately
3,170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years.

But let's say you have a computer that is a trillion trillion times as fast
as that and can process 10^(9+12+12)=10^31 positions per second.  Why then
you can compute chess in 100,000,000,000,000,000 seconds - why that's only
3 billion years!  Man, we're really making progress now eh?

Now, assuming perfect scalability, we only have to find a trillion trillion
processors to run in parallel.

Ed Seedhouse
"Seedhouse" on ICC
CFC Rating: 2050

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