Author: Darrel Briley
Date: 07:40:04 05/26/05
There's another article on Chessbase site today concerning the upcoming match. http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2412 It's interesting to note that despite the upcoming Adams/Leko match beginning June 2nd (a rapid match), the match with Hydra is getting all the press. Some highlights from the article: ...processing power equivalent to more than 200 standard PCs ...64-way cluster computer ...16 nodes of four computers, with each node boasting 32GB of memory ...Each computer has an Intel Xeon 3.06 Ghz. ...It has never been beaten by a human. And some of the expamples provided to demonstrate Hydra's power: -1 second to analyse 200 million chess moves and chose the best one. This includes projecting the game 18-40 moves head (6 more than Deep Blue) -1 millisecond to calculate all possible angles and determine whether Luis Garcia’s shot was a goal in the Champions League semi-final -1 second to match a finger print to any person within the UK -Less than 1.5 minutes to match a finger print to any person in the world -Approximately five minutes to calculate every prime number between 1 and 1x1051 (a sexdicillion)
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