Author: Chris Carson
Date: 05:13:21 02/22/03
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On February 22, 2003 at 07:05:43, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>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.
Wow. Shredder and Fritz runinning on 1.7 (aprox. speed up for a dual) times
2.8Ghz equals 4.7Ghz. That is about the same (perhaps a little faster) than the
machines for the DF vs. Gm Kramnik or DJ vs. Gm Kasparov matches. These two
programs are playing at about 2800 ELO! This might be one of the strongest
Chess events (Man or Machine) this year.
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