On 3/23/07, David Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 23, 2007, at 4:12 PM, Alfredo Portes wrote: > > > 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." > > Ah... it's always instructive to look at the history of a wikipedia > page. It used to say: > > "The final calculation was carried out using William Stein's SAGE > system at University of Washington." > > The correction was made by yours truly, less than 24 hours ago.
Could you change it to "16-core AMD Opteron machine" instead of 8-core, since it is a 16 core machine. True, only 8-cores were supported by the kernel when they ran their calculation, but that's not very relevant, since they only used 4 cores in their actual code. 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
