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Subject: Re: Hydra node speed from CSS forum

Author: Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso

Date: 15:15:59 08/30/04

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On August 30, 2004 at 14:07:48, Pallav Nawani wrote:

>On August 30, 2004 at 12:15:31, Jonas Bylund wrote:
>
>>>Even if the program has to be re-written to make it able to accept distributed
>>>clusters, the main idea behind Nimzo with a lot of modifications could still be
>>>used by Dr.Donninger.
>>>
>>>Jorge
>>
>>As hardware programming is very different from what i understand, to "normal"
>>programming, i am pretty sure Hydra is completely different from Nimzo, Atleast
>>so different that comparing hydra strength to that of Nimzo is useless.
>
>No, not really. That depends on what you mean by hardware programming. If you
>mean chip design, yes, that's a bit different, but ultimately the logic is
>represented in one of the various hardware languages, and it is like 'normal'
>programming with (quite a few differences, which really have to do with the fact
>that you are now dealing with cycles instead of instructions).

I would say it really looks very different. I red a document somewhere where
they explained a simplyfied version of their search in a fluxogram and it really
doesn't resemble anything we are accustom to do in our 'normal programming'.

>
>If you mean 'embedded systems programming' (The kind of programming that allows
>a video cd player to play vcds, or a Hardware mp3 player to decode mp3s), then
>the difference is minimal.
>
>In the latter case, it should be relatively easy to carry over Nimzo techniques
>to Hydra.
>
>Regds,
>Pallav



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