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1. Mini Project for CSE 260
Deepa Veerappan
DEEP BLUE
Ref. http://www.research.ibm.com/deepblue

2. Introduction
• Most powerful chess playing computer.
• Unique combination of innovate software
engineering and massive parallel processing
power.

3. Architecture
• 32 node IBM RS/6000 SP system
• Uses 30 Power Two Super Chip processors
(P2SC)
• Each node contains 1 micro channel card
• Each card contains 8 VLSI chess processors
• Total : 256 chess processors

4. Chess Processor
• Single chip chess search engine
– Move generation
– Evaluation
– Search

5. Deep Blue in Action
• Analyzes 200,000,000 positions per second
(Kasparov evaluates 3 positions per second)
• Evaluates the current position
• Integrates chess information
• Chooses the optimum move
• Deep Blue beat Kasparov!!!

6. Current Iteration of RS/6000 SP
• Named ASCI White
• 512-node with 8192 processors
• 12.3 trillion calculations/second
(teraflops)
• 1000 times more powerful than Deep Blue

7. Applications
• Molecular dynamics
• Financial modeling
• Data mining
• Weather Forecasting