Author: Slater Wold
Date: 15:23:29 02/14/04
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On February 14, 2004 at 10:03:55, Steffan Westcott wrote: >On February 14, 2004 at 00:24:33, Luis Smith wrote: > >>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. > >Comparing speeds of an FPGA (or ASIC) application (eg chess) to a CPU running >application software is not straightforward at all. Both contain the concept of >a hardware clock (or clocks), but it is meaningless to compare clock speeds, as >this does not measure the amount of useful work done per clock cycle >(Incidentally, FPGA applications usually run at a clock frequency of around >50MHz - 100MHz or so, but this is a gross generalisation). Hydra runs at 30mhz.
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