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Subject: Re: Hydra upgraded

Author: enrico carrisco

Date: 19:22:38 11/20/05

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On November 20, 2005 at 21:17:43, Vincent Lejeune wrote:

>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 ...

I can take a few guesses -- as in the soil in which the server lay.

-elc.

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