DEEP BLUE

Mini Project for CSE 260

Deepa Veerappan

Ref. http://www.research.ibm.com/deepblue
 Introduction

• Most powerful chess playing computer.

• Unique combination of innovate software
engineering and massive parallel processing
power.
 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
 Chess Processor

• Single chip chess search engine

– Move generation
– Evaluation
– Search
 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!!!
 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
 Applications

• Molecular dynamics
• Financial modeling
• Data mining
• Weather Forecasting