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IBM Supercomputer BlueGene Plays Chess Match
Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 1:19 pm
by Sean Evans
http://www.thesportscampus.com/20100623 ... sult-25-05
I wonder which chess software program they used?
Perhaps, they will let GM's play against it ?!
Cordially,
Sean
Re: IBM Supercomputer BlueGene Plays Chess Match
Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 1:32 pm
by Mincho Georgiev
They actually come up with a draw, which is awesome, I believe
Re: IBM Supercomputer BlueGene Plays Chess Match
Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 3:19 pm
by Edmund
http://players.chessdom.com/veselin-top ... lue-gene-p
The only problem for Topalov was that there is no software that runs on such hardware. For Dnevnik Topalov revealed that he has collected a team of computer professionals to modify a program to work on the Blue Gene.
There you go .. must have been one of the open source programs then.
Re: IBM Supercomputer BlueGene Plays Chess Match
Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 1:24 pm
by Martin Andersen
It must be more than 4 times faster than Deep Blue.
In 1997 the fastest supercomputer had a performance of 1 TFlops,
according to top500.org.
Now in 2010 the number one is more than 1000 times faster.