Facts about Deep Blue

Deep Blue ran on a massively parallel, RS/6000 SP-based computer system.

Deep Blue searched between 100 million and 200 million chess positions per second.

During the match with Kasparov, it averaged 126 million positions per second.

IBM researchers Murray Campbell, Joseph Hoane, and Feng Hsiung Hsu created Deep Blue.

IBM's Deep Blue project began in 1989. Since IBM continued adding different hardware and software to various iterations of Deep Blue, there's no exact year when Deep Blue was built.