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Subject: Re: What is the purpose of Hydra?

Author: Walter Koroljow

Date: 16:51:45 08/22/04

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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?

Perhaps the interesting question is why is this being funded by PAL?

I have been doing FPGA work for a while now, and and it is exhilarating to be
able to process data streams at 100+ MHz in real time.  This is feasible with
FPGAs for a signal processing environment. In this environment one can often
pipeline the processing quite easily.

It is quite another thing to be able to do this kind of processing when there is
some serious branching.  Hydra tells me and other people using FPGAs that there
is hope in this direction.

Walter



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