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Subject: Re: CB quote from Donninger about Hydra.

Author: Wayne Lowrance

Date: 14:21:32 06/27/05

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On June 27, 2005 at 12:03:10, Amir wrote:

>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.


wow, impressive
Wayne



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