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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