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Subject: Re: Fingerprint and DNA matching with inexpensive Supercomputer !

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 11:25:54 08/22/04

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On August 22, 2004 at 13:59:35, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>On August 22, 2004 at 13:01:16, James T. Walker wrote:
>
>>If it has no commercial value then what is it's purpose.  Are they trying to
>>accomplish what Deep Blue already has done?



Hopefully yes, but we will also have gained a lot of experience in solving this
kind of problem.

What kind of problem?

The problem of running applications that require prodigious amounts of
computational resources on specialised hardware components. Essentially what you
are doing is building a very affordably super-computer. We can supply clusters
with or without the FPGA hardware enhancement.

For uses other than chess?

Surely. Currently there is a lot of interest for applications like fingerprint
and DNA matching, where a lot of computing power is required. The technology is
very close to what we are doing with Hydra – a relative inexpensive
super-computer that is able to handle the task.

Many thanks, Ali Nasir, for this interesting tour of your world for computer
chess.


http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1866



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