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Subject: Re: Fun rating list new #1

Author: Luis Smith

Date: 21:24:33 02/13/04

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On February 13, 2004 at 23:22:44, Chessfun wrote:

>On February 13, 2004 at 23:06:02, Luis Smith wrote:
>
>>>I know from talking to Erdogan Günes who operates "Hydra" at Playchess that he
>>>has recently signed up here and will likely post about Hydra as it develops.
>>>
>>>Sarah.
>>
>>Erdo (his handle on playchess) seems to be a popular beta testers amongst
>>Chessbase programmers.
>
>Erdo has been a CB beta tester for a long period and would like all other beta
>testers receive CB program copies in advance to test. Erdo does some of his
>testing on Playchess, while others maybe run autoplayer games and test suites.
>
>> I saw that in his profile he was operating Hydra on
>>Playchess with an P4 3.06 x 8 with 8 of those FPGA cards.
>
>Apparently while it may have said that, only 4 were running.

Still impressive.  Do you know what speed Brutus/Hydra runs on one of those FPGA
cards compared to the 3.06 chip?  I imagine the FPGA chip would be signifigantly
faster than a Xeon processor.

>
>>If the Hydra project is successful what would be the asking price for one of
>>those chips?  Anyone have any estimates?  Would it even be sold commercially?
>
>My guess would be if it wins Paderborn and then maybe a couple of other computer
>tournaments, they would seek a match with either Kasparov or Kramnik. Next guess
>after that sell them commercially, last guess $600 per card.

Who made that estimate?

Thanks

>
>Sarah.



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