Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 08:29:22 12/27/05
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On December 27, 2005 at 08:44:18, Uri Blass wrote: >On December 27, 2005 at 08:36:24, JNoomen wrote: > >>Hi all, >> >>It's quite possible that the computerchess lists show something like this at the >>end of the year: >> >>1. Rybka 32-bit >>2. Fruit 2.2.1 >>3. Fritz 9 >>4. Shredder 9 >>5. Hiarcs 10 >> >>Now suppose we enter Hydra and Zappa in these lists. Condition: they both play >>on the SAME hardware as the above 5. So no program has a hardware advantage. All >>programs use their own book. all programs a X2 with 2 cores overclocked @ 2.7Ghz and 2 hydra cards inside, just like that testmachine they use in abu dhabi: 1. Rybka 64 bits 2. Zappa 64 bits 3. Fruit 32 bits 4. Hiarcs 10 5. Shredder9 6. Fritz9 99. Hydra You know, without 64 processors, having 2 hardware cards which are development cards at just 60Mhz or so, that has simply zero chance against software. those fpga boards have been made to *develop* chips, not to use them as release processors. released fpga hardware runs at near 1Ghz, not 60Mhz!! So hydra at 1Ghz would surely be a good match for the software, but at 60Mhz, no chance, really. fpga development boards weren't designed to be used as production hardware :) Vincent >>Now comes the poll question: where do you think that Hydra and Zappa will be in >>the list given above? > >hydra cannot run on the same hardware and this was explained in the past also by >chrilly. > >He said that there are things that are cheap for hydra but very expensive if he >tries to do it on the same hardware that most use and that there are things that >are expensive for software on Normal PC so he even did not try to do it in Nimzo >but cheap for hydra. > >Uri
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