Author: Vincent Lejeune
Date: 14:38:27 08/24/04
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On August 24, 2004 at 16:27:37, Jorge Pichard wrote: >On August 24, 2004 at 15:16:03, Thomas Mayer wrote: > >>Hi David, >> >>>Would anyone wish to guess the cost of the Hydra hardware? >> >>well, I think it is nearly as expensive as some think. You know, it's a cluster >>of 8 Dual machines. Okay, they nead 16 FCPGA cards which cost when I remember >>correctly around 1500$... But for sure it is way cheaper then what IBM has done >>with Deep Blue. > >I believe that Hydra was only only two FCPGA cards. According to this picture. 2 cards * 8 machines = 16 fpga cards ! > >On the right you can see the two slots where the Alpha Data FPGAs are installed. >http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1866 > >>It is even possible that the Shredder machine is more expensive. At least an >>8-way Opteron would cost more, I think... >> >>Greets, Thomas > >You are definitively correct and I don't think that Hydra is even twice faster >than Shredder is on the Quad Opteron that it was running. If you look at the >search depth that both were reaching, but shredder has always been slower than >Deep Fritz, therefore, search depth is not a mean to measure shredder either. > >Jorge.
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