Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 22:19:46 02/20/04
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On February 20, 2004 at 21:15:10, Bob Durrett wrote: >On February 19, 2004 at 13:18:03, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>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... > >Is there no alternative to a PCI bus? If not, maybe we need to invent >something. > >Bob D. Not on a PC. That is the only interface there is for the moment. Other machines have something better, but they cost a _lot_ more...
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