Author: Darrel Briley
Date: 19:04:02 06/26/05
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On June 26, 2005 at 21:37:04, Peter Kappler wrote:
>On June 26, 2005 at 19:34:30, Earl Fuller wrote:
>
>>The question still must be answered, Hydra vs Shredder.
>>Some of you think Hydra is all but unbeatable,__i do not__:)
>>The match that is begging to be played now is of course, Shredder vs Hydra.
>>With Shredder on a state of the art computer that has been tested before the
>>match__:)__would be very interesting indeed. And not some old laptop.__:)
>>These people that have programed Shredder should hunt Hydra down and slay it.
>>Come on Shredder team, there is someone knocking at your door !___:)
>>earl
>
>
>Absolutely! An 8-game match would be great! But Shredder needs a very fast
>machine for this to be a fair match. A quad-processor Opteron would be perfect.
> Hydra should run on the same hardware it used to beat Adams. Nah, 32 FPGAs is
>too fast. 16 sounds about right.
>
>I'm certain that Hydra would win this match handily. I'll even go out on a limb
>and predict the score. Lets see, I think Hydra would probably win 3 games and
>draw the remaining 5, for a final score of 5.5-2.5. Remember, you heard it here
>first!
>
>:)
>
>-Peter
I say why stop at 4 processors? Shredder supports up to an 8 way system doesn't
it? So, to be really fair, give Shredder the best off the shelf hardware money
can buy and then let the behemoths battle it out.
"There can only be one" (from "Highlander" the movie)
DB
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