Funny you should mention that... I just switched from running mprime on my 400MHz K6-2, to running it on my 450MHz PII. I'd previously been running Tony Forbes' MFAC on the PII instead, but this fits mostly within level-1 cache and hence made no use of the larger PII cache or the better FPU. The result? Mprime cycle times down from 0.465 to 0.197sec, and I've been running this inefficient set-up for more than 8 months! Damn...
Of course, as you asked, Tony Forbes' MM61 mersenne project is at: http://www.ltkz.demon.co.uk/ar2/mm61.htm Yours, Gareth Randall George Woltman wrote: > At 12:05 AM 11/28/2001 +0100, george de fockert wrote: > >> My factoring machine speed is k6 400Mhz , and I know of the benchmark >> pages, >> but there are no factoring benchmarks, only LL. >> So, forget trial factoring for the next months, and do only LL ? > > > The K6 (as well as Cyrix and Intel 486) chips have lousy floating point > units. > So bad in fact that a 400 MHZ K6 is about 3 times slower than a 400 MHz > PII when it comes to LL testing, ECM, and P-1 factoring. > > What you need is a project that uses integer arithmetic - like > distributed.net. -- ======= Gareth Randall ======= _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
