Author: Uri Blass
Date: 11:16:23 02/16/04
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On February 16, 2004 at 13:31:58, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On February 16, 2004 at 12:18:13, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On February 16, 2004 at 12:07:37, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On February 16, 2004 at 11:37:54, Vincent Diepeveen 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. >>>> >>>>I agree here. >>>> >>>>> The cards, about $500 a piece. >>>> >>>>$3000 a card at least. >>>> >>>>Hydra gets sponsored by a FPGA company called Xilinx. >>>> >>>>I hope you realize that it takes at least 10 seconds for Hydra to get the 8 >>>>cards to run well. >>>> >>>>So you can never use it in blitz in fact. Something like 30 0 is where it would >>>>excel at though when having a quick operator. >>>> >>>>>$25k worth of hardware, just to draw Shredder 8 ($50 program) on a PC. >>>>>Still think Hydra is the 'engine of the future'? :) >>>> >>>>Chrilly is good at peeking at 1 or 2 tournaments before people figure out how to >>>>beat his creation. 1998 nimzo was very aggressive and could win by doing that >>>>some games and was tactical strong because of the agressive tuning. >>>> >>>>2003 he has something even more aggressive. by default a passer at the 7th row >>>>is worth more than a piece which usually is like 4.2+ pawns. >>>> >>>>Note we had a major discussion there at IPCC 2004. >>>> >>>>To quote it therefore in the Chrilly language, a passer at 2nd row is worth in >>>>Hydra about 10 pawns. >>> >>>That is impossible. Because it would _never_ promote the pawn since a queen >>>would then be worth less than the pawn on the 7th... >> >>pawn = 64 in hydra. > >I'm not sure why that would matter. pawn=64, 10pawns = 640, queen = 9pawns. >All the same thing, when everything is relative to the value of a pawn... I think that vincent means that queen=900 and not 9 pawns. Uri
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