Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 04:05:43 02/22/03
This year both Shredder and Fritz are running on the fastest and most reliable
machines currently available. If you really want to know, the Transtec 2200 Xeon
Chess Workstation contains two Intel Xeon 2.8 GHz processors, the Intel E7505
chipset, 2 GB of ECC DDRAM, 60 GB EIDE hard drives, an NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440SE
64 MB graphics card, a 64-bit 133 MHz PCI-X, 2 64-bit 100 MHz PCI-X, 2 USB 2.0
and 2 PS/2 connectors, onboard Sound (AC 97), an onboard Gigabit Ethernet, a
Cherry keyboard, a transtec wheel Maus, all in a black tower housing with a 450
watt power supply and the Windows XP Professional operating system.
Another interesting program taking part in Paderborn is Brutus, an FPGA
development by Dr Christian ("Chrilly") Donninger. Brutus runs on special
hardware called Field Programmable Gate Arrays which make it much faster than a
program running on a general-purpose computer. Brutus can also use the most
sophisicated kind of chess knowledge, since adding information to its evaluation
function does not slow down the search speed.
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