Author: Bo Persson
Date: 08:32:48 05/30/05
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On May 30, 2005 at 06:16:02, Joost Buijs wrote: >40 mln nodes /sec. is for the old Hydra-Chimera. > >The new Hydra-Scylla is much faster. I saw it run at 130 mln nodes/sec. on >several occasions. So the speed of Hydra is roughly comparable with the speed of >Deeper Blue. That's not an accurate comparison. Deep Blue's 200M nodes/s where an average number. It was seen to peek at 1 billion nodes/s "on several occations". > >The search of Hydra is much more advanced. The software part of Deep Blue was >probably nothing more than a souped up version of GNU-Chess. The Deep Blue teem chose not to complicate the search too much, because their speed advantage was big enough anyway at the time. Bo Persson
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