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Subject: Re: What is the purpose of Hydra?

Author: Vincent Lejeune

Date: 18:41:16 08/22/04

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On August 22, 2004 at 19:51:45, Walter Koroljow 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?
>
>Perhaps the interesting question is why is this being funded by PAL?

I red the interview of Ali Nasir Mohammed here
http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1866 , and I believe it's
computer-chess passion who drive this project ;o)

>
>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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