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Subject: Re: New hydra hardware !!

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 10:03:43 01/31/05

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On January 31, 2005 at 10:14:28, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On January 31, 2005 at 10:01:16, Vincent Lejeune wrote:
>
>>
>>news from 28/01/05 (more to come)
>>
>>http://hydrachess.com/hydra-scylla.html
>>
>>32 nodes (previous version has 16) , no information about CPU power and FPGA
>>cards yet ...
>
>It's 4 nodes.
>
>1 node = 8 processor Xeon.
>
>FPGA cards would get double speed. So must be between 30Mhz and 60Mhz. They only
>use development fpga cards. So never use the real power of fpga (which is
>printing your own processor which can run hands down at 600Mhz or more). They
>stick to development cards for some unknown reason to me.
>
>CPU power is not interesting at all of course, cards do the work.
>
>Vincent

I hope not.  Old machine used 8 boxes with 2 cpus per box.  Going to 8-way xeons
is a performance killer.  The PCI bus just can't keep up.



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