Author: Joshua Shriver
Date: 11:01:38 03/18/04
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Going on a limb, but here's a shot at it :) From my understanding Hydra uses regular x86 hardware and FPGA (development) chips connected via the PCI bus. To the best of my knowledge this wouldnt be unreasonable to spin into a product. Reason being I've seen somewhat-ROM like FPGA's for sale in bulk. Granted the ones they used in Hydra are dev boards for tweaking and constant reprogramming, but if they could get a PCI or cheaper ROM like FPGA (or one time flash FPGA) boards it could be marketed. Then have a setting in whatever GUI you use to tell it how many Hydra boards you have (or autoprobe them). This could be scalable as you can buy more and more boards as you wish. I think this would be neat, especially if they can produce them somewhat at a reasonable price and perhaps even release an SDK or API notes so other chess devs can utilize the power of these custom chess chips. Just an idea. Sincerely, Joshua Shriver >On March 18, 2004 at 02:32:00, Jouni Uski wrote: > >Depend on who is willing to sponsor, but I believe that Hydra doesn't have a >future unless they are willing to make it affordable to the mass. > >PS: There is no sense in sponsoring Hydra against Kasparaov, unless there will >be a potential demand for the product. > >Jorge
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