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Subject: Re: Hydra needs Hyatt on team!

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 10:18:03 02/19/04

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On February 18, 2004 at 16:43:23, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>On February 18, 2004 at 16:00:38, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On February 18, 2004 at 15:43:17, Aaron Gordon wrote:
>>
>>>On February 18, 2004 at 15:34:32, Mark Young wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hydra gets suckerd by some nice anti-computer play! A very ugly game by Hydra.
>>>
>>>Doubt Hyatt would want to work with the Hydra programmer. I believe it was
>>>Donninger (lead programmer?) who said, "The only good American is a dead one" or
>>>something to that effect.
>>
>>
>>Correct.  But then, I'm not sure why the subject "Hydra needs hyatt on team"
>>came up either.  I'd suspect they can do just fine without me.  I'm not really
>>interested in looking at hardware solutions when we have such good
>>general-purpose "solutions" like the opteron around.  :)
>
>
>I was just thinking about the comparison of two of those Hydra cards with a Dual
>Opteron 248 or 4 Cards versus Quad Opteron. I believe that Crafty using the same
>Quad Opteron that you previously use, is much faster than Hydra with 4 FPGA
>cards :-)
>
>Jorge


It is hard to say.  I know how fast I was running.  But their parallel
implementation has some issues to deal with that I get to ignore, and some of
those issues are pretty important, such as accessing the hash table,
communicating with other processors, etc.  Fast on a SMP box, not so fast on a
box that depends on the PCI bus to talk to the FPGA cards...



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