Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 08:30:57 02/16/04
I still don't understand why Fritz nor Shredder have not been able to get an AMD sponsor, since 95% of the times it is sponsored by company that runs Intel inside. They need to get a different sponsor in order to beat Hydra in the World Championship. Hydra gets effectively around 4 million nodes a second I am very sure that a Quad opteron for a software program is faster than 4 fpga cards 30Mhz are. Fritz and Shredder run in Paderborn on an identically constructed Transtec diagram workstation with two Intel each Xeon processors with 3,06 Ghz and 2 gigabyte memory. Deep Fritz will also count over 1 gigabyte Hashtabellen and with 2 to 2.3 million position/second for instance a search depth on 14 to 16 sections will reach, in the final game by means of 20 sections, strongly dependent on position and material. When ordered a Quad Opteron cost perhaps $45k and fpga cards cost only $3000 a card and a 4 node cluster Quad Xeon 3.06Ghz costs less than $45k. Here are some comparison of a Dual Opteron versus a Dual Xeon: http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=opt248vsxeon32a&page=5
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