Answer by Andrew Mackay for Have today's desktop PCs surpassed IBM's Deep...
This question is nearly 10 years old, but it's still interesting. To put it in perspective, even an old smartphone like the iPhone 7 doing SGEMM (SGEMM is a kind of single precision multiply) scores...
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1997 Deep Blue ~ 11 GFLOPs2001 Pentium-4 ~ 3 GFLOPs2010 Core-i7 ~ 50 GFLOPs2011 IBM Watson ~ 80 TFLOPs2016 GTX-1080 ~ 8 TFLOPs
View ArticleAnswer by Diamond Tiara for Have today's desktop PCs surpassed IBM's Deep...
No. Deepblue, an IBM machine that's comparable to the IBM eServer and AS/400 or RS/6000 is just not comparable with a PC. You say you could build a better server that run Linux with an Intel...
View ArticleAnswer by telegramatic for Have today's desktop PCs surpassed IBM's Deep Blue...
Deep blue was also "enhanced with 480 special purpose VLSI chess chips".Dedicated silicon for a specific task running in a massively parallel configuration can be extremely quick.Deep Blue could...
View ArticleAnswer by hookenz for Have today's desktop PCs surpassed IBM's Deep Blue of...
Well if wikipedia is accurate here are the specs for deep blue:30 x RS/6000 SP Thin 120MHz P2SC-based system in a cluster.Each contained a special purpose VLSI chess chip.Running AIX.Processing...
View ArticleAnswer by Matthew Lock for Have today's desktop PCs surpassed IBM's Deep Blue...
". In June 1997, Deep Blue was the 259th most powerful supercomputer according to the TOP500 list, achieving 11.38 GFLOPS on the High-Performance LINPACK...
View ArticleAnswer by Hemm for Have today's desktop PCs surpassed IBM's Deep Blue of 1997?
I saw your question and became curious myself. I found this quote from an interview with a Deep Blue coder in 2007:Wired News: What is the state of supercomputer-versus-human matchups? How are we...
View ArticleHave today's desktop PCs surpassed IBM's Deep Blue of 1997?
I was wondering if my PC has surpassed the processing power of Deep Blue which famously won against the human world champion Garry Kasparov. What was the processing speed of Deep blue as compared to...
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