On 3/23/07, Alfredo Portes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think this was kind of a rhetorical question by Bill. I think what > Bill is saying > is that the press release did not try to find out more > about the software behind the science, in this case the Sage, not that > you or any developer tried to promoted. It is obvious this is was not the > case, > by not knowing that SAGE is not a supercomputer.
You're right. Thanks for the clarification. > In a similar note the wikipedia entry on the E8 group actually has a better > description than the article from Science Magazine: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E8_(mathematics) > > "The final calculation was carried out on an 8-core AMD machine with > 64 gigabytes of RAM, run by William Stein at the University of > Washington.[7] The group is working on the larger task of producing an > atlas of Lie groups and representations." Thanks. It's actually a 16-core machine, but unfortunately only 8 cores were supported. I'm currently (right now!) working on installing an OS that supports all 16 cores. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
