Alex Kruppa (a.k.a. 'the stud of TU Mu"nchen', at least according to his
e-mail address :) wrote:
>A Pentium IV takes about 0.5 sec for this FFT (at 1.7 GHz).
That probably should read '0.05 sec,' which cuts you time estimate by
a factor of 10, i.e. brings it down to < 24 hours. I suspect this is
at least in the near-term one could then simply compile one of the H
(High-level-language Lucas-Lehmer; how's that for a tortured acronym? :)
No, because if we did that, the whole project would go to H. spike
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Martijn Kruithof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You forget that most of the ice is on the poles, while the
> water is so to say all around.
An excellent point. I was still thinking of hydropower reservoirs
while writing about the ice melting, and forgetting the implications
of the water getting r
On 24 Mar 00, at 15:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I suspect for LL tests in the ~10M range, this happy medium may be as
> 'small' as 1-2MB. Are PC systems with L2 caches in this size range
> available? If so, how much of a premium does one pay for the extra cache?
Ernst, your Mlucas program has
> There's previously been several posts discussing the performance penalty
> one suffers when running multiple LL tests on a multiprocessor system
> with a single shared system bus. It would be interesting to see whether
> this
> penalty could be alleviated in a reasonably cost-effective fashion t
There's previously been several posts discussing the performance penalty
one suffers when running multiple LL tests on a multiprocessor system
with a single shared system bus. It would be interesting to see whether this
penalty could be alleviated in a reasonably cost-effective fashion through
use
Aaron Blosser wrote:
...I happened to be viewing a list of processes on my NT machine today
(using
the fabulous PSLIST from www.sysinternals.com) and noticed that
NTPRIME.EXE
shows a priority of 8 (normal), but has 2 threads...
With a modern desktop confuser the idle processes use ~98% of the
CP
The last time I sent results in my total exponents tested was 7 and Cpu years
were
1.670. Since then my account has been updated to 8 exponents and 1.929 years.
This happened after the new server went on line. I'm sure I have checked only
seven
exponents so is there a problem with the servers in
I am trying to find out how to test my computer to compare to the benchmarks page
http://www2.tripnet.se/~nlg/mersenne/benchmk.htm
but I find no details about what the numbers on the page actually mean, and no
information about how to get them, I can't be the only person with this problem and
