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Subject: Re: CB quote from Donninger about Hydra.

Author: Amir

Date: 09:03:10 06/27/05

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On June 27, 2005 at 10:46:20, Derek Paquette wrote:

>On June 27, 2005 at 05:26:12, Günther Simon wrote:
>
>>*Hydra's chief programmer Chrilly Donninger said: “In our quest to prove the
>>power of Hydra we could not have hoped for a better outcome. This is a far more
>>difficult opponent than Kasparov, and Adams has played extremely well. So we are
>>very pleased with the performance of our machine"*
>>
>>IMHO he leaves the ground now...
>>
>>At least two conclusions of above quote are far from reality already.
>>
>>Guenther
>
>what I don't understand is why team hydra isn't using hydra's full potential?
>why not use all of the chips against adams...why reduce it?
>I asked this before but wasn't satisfied with the answer

Because they only have 32 FPGA cards right now. They recently updated to 32
cards from 16 cards only a few months ago. In future someday they are planning
to add 32 more FPGA cards, and then the cluster will use all 64 CPUs.






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