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Subject: Re: Hydr's KN/s

Author: Madhavan

Date: 21:21:38 07/03/05

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On July 03, 2005 at 10:12:55, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On July 03, 2005 at 08:18:48, Amir wrote:
>
>>On July 03, 2005 at 07:21:55, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>
>>
>>>By the way, my own experiments at supercomputers indicated that 16 cpu's is most
>>>easy to get a good speedup from, relative seen. 32 cpu's it is a lot hardware,
>>>but putting 32 cpu's to work is real easy. Yet the extra speedup you get from
>>>moving from 16 to 32 cpu's is not so big. Not only speedup gets bigger, also the
>>>worst case speedup still is utmost tiny.
>>
>>Actually, with 16 CPUs they were saying Hydra does 40 million nps .. so the
>>juump was really big if now they are doing 220 million nps
>
>hydra machine has new fpga cards which are more than 2 times powerful and
>Chrilly has been fighting long to get a node faster.

What would be the purpose of getting node faster?Does it mean the software
searches deeper depths?Is Hydra perfectly programmed,was there no flaw in its
search?

Does Hydra get more speed search than Deep Blue of 1997?



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