Author: Chessfun
Date: 05:08:55 02/14/04
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On February 14, 2004 at 00:24:33, Luis Smith wrote: >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. No idea. >> >>>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? Sorry those are my own. Sarah.
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