Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 12:24:10 02/15/04
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On February 15, 2004 at 15:22:03, Joachim Rang wrote: >On February 15, 2004 at 15:14:16, Slater Wold wrote: > >>On February 15, 2004 at 15:09:57, Bob Durrett wrote: >> >>>On February 15, 2004 at 15:06:26, Slater Wold wrote: >>> >>>>On February 15, 2004 at 14:34:08, Bob Durrett wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>>I envision a standard equipment rack with 32 or 64 Hydra cards, a power supply, >>>>>possibly a conventional computer for orchestration, and fans. >>>> >>>>Do you think Hydra was running on a single computer, with a single card? >>> >>>Actually, that is what I thought. What was actually done? >> >>4 Dual Xeon 2.4Ghz PCs & 8 FPGA cards (2 per PC) >> >>The PCs are probably $5k a piece. The cards, about $500 a piece. >> >>$25k worth of hardware, just to draw Shredder 8 ($50 program) on a PC. >> >>Still think Hydra is the 'engine of the future'? :) >> > >be fair here: Shredder was running on a Dual Xeon 3.06 GHz, probably 10k > >and think about the potential for Hydra. Soon we have PCI-Express more bandwidth >and the FPGAs ware running @ 33 MHz this is easy to tune in contrary to the >CPU-Clocks. > >I don't thin, that Hydra will be a commercial success but I think we might see >beautiful performance in the near future. I think the Brutus/Hydra project has a very intresting consequence: We don't have to hope for Deep Blue to be revived. There is a new way to build a stupendous chess machine. If someone wanted to expend one million dollars or so, they could create a deep blue like system. It would be very interesting for research purposes.
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