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Subject: Re: Hydra node speed from CSS forum

Author: Volker Böhm

Date: 09:24:54 08/30/04

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On August 30, 2004 at 10:02:54, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On August 30, 2004 at 08:30:34, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>
>>On August 30, 2004 at 08:12:52, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>
>>>Eine FPGA-Karte untersucht momentan ca. 3 Millionen Positionen/Sekunde. 16
>>>Karten machen daher theoretisch 48 MPos/sec. (Donninger)
>>>
>>>Jouni
>>
>>      If Hydra made 48 Mpos/sec this again proves (in comparison
>>      with the 2 Mpos/sec on Quad-Opteron server with 4 CPU's of
>>      Shredder) that the number of pos/sec can't be taken as a
>>      reliable value for the goodness of a chess program. It's
>>      of course simply impossible to compare apples and organes.
>>      Kurt [http://www.utzingerk.com]
>
>
>Don't forget that Hydra ripped Shredder's head off.  So the NPS _might_ be
>significant here...

Didn´t I´ve heard you saying that 10 games are not enough to draw a
statistically significant conclusion on the playing strength?

Greetings Volker



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