At 21:01 11/03/2001 -0500, George Woltman wrote: >Can prime95 take advantage of SMT? I'm skeptical. If the FFT is broken >up to run in two threads, I'm afraid L2 cache pollution will negate any >advantage of SMT. Of course, I'm just guessing - to test this theory out we >should compare our throughput running 1 vs. 2 copies of prime95 on an >SMT machine.
Could things be setup so that factoring and LL-testing went on "simultaneously?" This would speed up the overall amount of work being done. Kel _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
