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Subject: Re: Hydra upgraded

Author: Vincent Lejeune

Date: 18:17:43 11/20/05

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I asked several times to post message here, we saw very few
The hydra team doesn't like our forum :-(
I don't know why ...


On November 20, 2005 at 20:48:18, Andrew Walker wrote:

>
>I'd like to know if they've run any of the standard test sets through Hydra.
>The output would be very interesting!
>
>Andrew
>
>On November 20, 2005 at 20:39:32, Vincent Lejeune wrote:
>
>>http://hydrachess.com/
>>
>>...
>>With a processing power of 200 million moves a second – more than 200 times an
>>average home PC and 6 times the processing capability of Deep Blue – Hydra can
>>be configured for a range of super-computing tasks beyond chess, such as DNA and
>>finger-print matching, code breaking and space travel calculations.
>>...
>>Hydra’s Managing Director, Syed Basar Shueb said: “We have focused all our
>>attentions on building the world’s greatest chess computer, a task that has
>>taken four years and a lot of money. We’re confident that each member of the
>>Human Team will have trouble landing a blow against our silicon champion.”
>>Hydra has been upgraded to 64 processor cluster, “we have high hopes and we are
>>expecting a 4-0 win for Hydra, I know its very optimistic but this optimism
>>comes after all the experience we had with the development and performance of
>>Hydra in different tournaments”, said Muhammad Nasir Ali the project director ofHydra.



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