I AI the response is ever "The next decade"
2013/8/23 John Clark <[email protected]> > > > > On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Chris de Morsella > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> *>> If it's not random then it happened for a reason, and things happen >> in a computer for a reason too.* >> >> > Sure, but the "reason" may not be amenable to being completely >> contained within the confines of a deterministic algorithm >> > > What on earth are you talking about? The deterministic algorithm behaves > as it does for a reason but does not do so for a reason??!! > > > >> > if it depends on a series of outside processes >> > > If it depends on something then it's deterministic. > > > >> *> > At the time it may have been a supercomputer but that was 16 years >>> ago and the computer you're reading this E mail message on right now is >>> almost certainly more powerful than the computer that beat the best human >>> chess player in the world. And chess programs have gotten a lot better >>> too. So all that spaghetti and complexity at the cellular level that you >>> were rhapsodizing about didn't work as well as an antique computer running >>> a ancient chess program. >>> * >>> >> >> > ***> You are incorrect even today Deep Blue is still quite powerful >> compared to a PC* >> > > Not unless your meaning of "powerful" is radically diferent from mine. > > >> > The Deep Blue machine specs: >> It was a massively >> parallel<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massively_parallel>, >> RS/6000 SP Thin >> P2SC<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Scalable_POWERparallel>-based >> system with 30 nodes, with each node containing a 120 MHz >> P2SC<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P2SC> >> microprocessor <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microprocessor> for a total >> of 30, enhanced with 480 special purpose >> VLSI<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very-large-scale_integration>chess chips. >> Its chess playing program was written in >> C <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)> and ran under >> the AIX <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIX_operating_system> operating >> system <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system>. It was capable >> of evaluating 200 million positions per second, twice as fast as the >> 1996 version. In June 1997, Deep Blue was the 259th most powerful >> supercomputer <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputer> according to >> the TOP500 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOP500> list, achieving 11.38 >> GFLOPS <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFLOPS> on the High-Performance >> LINPACK <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LINPACK> >> benchmark.[12]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Blue_(chess_computer)#cite_note-12> >> > > OK. > > > I doubt the machine you are writing your email on even comes close to >> that level of performance; I know mine does not achieve that level of >> performance. >> > > Are you really quite sure of that? The computer I'm typing this on is an > ancient iMac that was not top of the line even back a full Moore's Law > generation ago when it was new, back in the olden bygone days of 2011. Like > all computers the number of floating point operations per second it can > perform depends on the problem, but in computing dot products running > multi-threaded vector code it runs at 34.3 GFOPS; so Deep Blue running at > 11.38 GFLOPS doesn't seem as impressive as it did in 1997. > > Right now the fastest supercomputer in the world has a LINPACK rating of > 54.9 pentaflop*s, a *pentaflop IS A MILLION GFLOPS; so today that Chinese > supercomputer is 4.8 millions times as powerful as Deep Blue was in 1997. > And in just a few years that supercomputer will join Deep Blue on the > antique computer junk pile. > > John K Clark > > > > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Alberto. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
