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Subject: Re: Will Shreder, Junior do better on Hydra type hardware (les FPGA chips)?

Author: Madhavan

Date: 01:46:58 08/26/04

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On August 26, 2004 at 00:53:17, Vikrant Malvankar wrote:

>I knew FPGA chips can not be used with Fritz, Shredder and Junior and is a
>harware not a software but I really wanted to know how many people(programmers)
>who are discussing Hydra vs Shredder match so aggresively really know abt
>Hydra's Hardware here.
>
>Well now my real question, rather than using FPGA chips can a really huge
>cluster say more than Hydra be used to operate Fritz,Shredder or Junior which
>then can be turned into System like Deep Blue with better chess Knowledge (of
>Shredder, Juior,Fritz) which Deep Blue lacked and is Hydra a new begining
>towards that type of system?

>or is it that this is just one of the rare events
>that Hydra has won ?

yes.
By the way,what was the hardware that shredder played?
4x 2.2 GHZ?

 (The same was said abt Shredder when it won a World
>championship for the first time)



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