Deep Blue (chess computer) power. It was a massively parallel, RS/6000 SP Thin P2SC-based system with 30 nodes, with each node containing a 120 MHz P2SC microprocessor, enhanced with 480 special purpose VLSI chess chips. Its chess playing program was written in C and ran under the AIX 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 according to the TOP500 list, achieving 11.38 GFLOPS on the High-Performance LINPACK benchmark. The Deep Blue chess computer that defeated Kasparov in 1997 would typically search
Deep Blue (musician) Deep Blue (musician) Deep Blue is the alias of electronic and drum and bass musician, Sean O'Keeffe. O'Keeffe started producing music in 1991 with the hardcore band 2 Bad Mice, co-writing their hit, "Bombscare". In 1993 he began to write and release under the alias Deep Blue, producing "Helicopter Tune" (also heard in the PSP and PlayStation 2 game "GTA Liberty City Stories" in 2006 and in the game "Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition" in 2005) for the Moving Shadow record label. The track reached number 68 in the UK Singles Chart in April 1994. In 1997, Deep Blue was