I think Larry is referring to the last sentence in the Acknowledgements section of this archived version of the Houdini home page. It seems to have been removed when Houdini 5 was released.
There seems to be no connection with Hydra's sponsor.
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I think Larry is referring to the last sentence in the Acknowledgements section of this archived version of the Houdini home page. It seems to have been removed when Houdini 5 was released.
That may be part of the confusion. Some commentators think it's run on a "university supercomputer".Sesse wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2019 9:52 pmI always chuckle when I see people calling it a “supercomputer”… Around the time I bought it, NTNU (the university in Trondheim) bought an actual supercomputer, which consisted of a few thousand machines similar to my own, plus a really fast Infiniband network to go with it.And we are talking +sesse+ here, „the Norwegian super computer“ that has been mentioned again and again in all live comments from recent human world championships – PR is guaranteed.
I don't think the participants being there in person are even necessary:Sesse wrote: ↑Tue Aug 13, 2019 11:34 pmJust measure genetics + some physical parameters and decide the winner?noobpwnftw wrote: ↑Tue Aug 13, 2019 11:32 pm I hope I'd live long enough to see Olympics played electronically.