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Subject: Re: Somebody knows something about Hydra commercial future? (NT)

Author: Jonas Bylund

Date: 16:19:54 11/10/04

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On November 10, 2004 at 18:32:17, Joseph Merolle wrote:

>On November 10, 2004 at 13:46:18, Joachim Rang wrote:
>
>>On November 10, 2004 at 13:39:21, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>>
>>>.
>>
>>Yes. There are no plans to enter the market with a Hydra-product anytime. So far
>>Hydra is simply a fun project of one wealthy Sheik. They are pleased to have the
>>strongest chess-entity on the planet and are eager to gather experience with big
>>clusters. For that Hydra is a good test. It is therefore unclear how long they
>>will support the project or in which direction they will try to develop it. the
>>above information is from the programmer Chrilly Donninger himself (in a german
>>board).
>>
>>regards Joachim
>
>Hydra is not the stroungest program out there its the stroung computer chess
>system, there is a big differance. Put anyone of the other top 10 programs out
>there (on the ssdf) using 16 processors and you will see hydra has problems.
>I realize that these other programs cant do that ( go up to 16
>processors)however hydra can be reduced to = the hardwar of the other programs.
>The hydra team are experts on computers not on chess. Now Stefan Meyer Kahlen is
>an expert chess programing. A fair statement that even the hydra team would
>agree to!
>
>JAMerolle


It might be the strongest chess program even on equal hardware, there is no way
of knowing. Your statement "Hydra is not the stroungest program out there its
the stroung computer chess
>system, there is a big differance." is wrong, do you have proof or are you just guessing?



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