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