Author: Jonas Bylund
Date: 13:27:34 08/14/04
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Quote form chessbase:
We cannot even begin to count the successes in other computer tournaments. Apart
from that the latest version of Shredder has been under development and
improvement by author Stefan Meyer-Kahlen for over a year now, so that we will
see a new, even stronger program playing in Abu Dhabi. And it will be running on
the fastest hardware available for normal mortals at the current time. It is a
Quad-Opteron server, with four processors at a speed of over 2 GHz apiece. The
system has enough memory to satisfy any program. Shredder will be generating and
evaluating almost two million positions per second (normally it runs at half a
million positions on a 3.x GHz Pentium 4). And finally the openings book is
developed by one of the most experienced authors in the business, the Italian
computer chess expert Sandro Necci. How could any program reasonably expect to
beat this team?
On the other hand...
Hydra is a hardware program, based on FPGA technology. It was developed by the
Austrian mathematician Dr Christian ("Chrilly") Donninger, who worked with
leading experts in the field to produce the Brutus program. In the match in Abu
Dhabi a multi-processor version of Brutus, called Hydra, will be running on a
16-way Linux cluster, in which each node is a 3.06 Xeon processor. The host
system holds 16 FPGA Vertex I cards. The cluster resides in the server room of
Pal Group of companies in Abu Dhabi. Author Chrilly Donninger will access it
from the tournament hall using an Internet connection.
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