RE: Mersenne: PrimeNet vulnerable to client misconfiguration?

2001-04-11 Thread Aaron Blosser
There should, at the least, be some "anti-whammy" protection against the same machine requesting more #'s than it could reasonably handle in a certain time period (2 years is more than generous, I'd think). We've seen this before, have we not? Misconfigured scripts of some sort which keep

Re: Mersenne: Thermal shock in CPUs.

2001-04-11 Thread Brian J. Beesley
On 10 Apr 2001, at 20:50, Shane Amy Sanford wrote: So my open question is: Do sudden temperature changes cause physical harm to CPUs, especially those that have only recently been turned on? Yes it does but this depends on your processor cooling methods to a certain extent. It's

Re: Mersenne: Thermal shock in CPUs.

2001-04-11 Thread Gareth Randall
Further, There might be two types of "movement" fracture damage occuring: 1. Movement between the substrate and the processor casing. This would be reduced if the thermal conductivity between these two parts is good, in which case both will expand together, rather than the substrate rapidly