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Subject: Re: Hydra Mystery Remains Unsolved

Author: Anson T J

Date: 09:25:18 02/17/04

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On February 17, 2004 at 10:30:32, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On February 17, 2004 at 08:41:16, Bob Durrett wrote:
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>>The fact is that Hydra whipped a bunch of conventional chess computers at
>>Paderborn.  That fact is indisputable.
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>>How???
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>>How could Hydra, chugging away at the clock rate of a slow snail, win against
>>the high-nps conventional machines?
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>I don't understand the question.  Hydra probably hit speeds of 15-20M nodes per
>second.  How is that "a slow snail"???
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>It was the fastest thing playing there by a factor of at least 4x...

I think he is talking about the clock speed of the boards. I don't know the
clock speed of the boards but I would imagine they are slower than GHz.
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>>They say "nps isn't everything."  But could the truth be "nps isn't anything"?
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>>Maybe conventional wisdom ["The Earth is flat"] isn't right after all.
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>>Does anybody understand what happened?  I feel that the results were monumental!
>>
>>Bob D.



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