On the subject of people with older machines despairing: on a Sun workstation my
primitive-trinomial program takes about 10 hours (but depending on how many
other engineers are using the machine) to test a q value for Richard Brent's
distributed computing project. (It is to find primitive trinomi
At 06:05 AM 3/4/01 -0800, Paul Leyland wrote:
>Three weeks ago, I wrote:
>
>> The integer factoring people can always use more cycles, and
>> even antique machines make valuable contributions in a reasonable
>> time. For instance, I have small number of DECstations and a Sun
>> SS2 on my home ne
Three weeks ago, I wrote:
> The integer factoring people can always use more cycles, and
> even antique machines make valuable contributions in a reasonable
> time. For instance, I have small number of DECstations and a Sun
> SS2 on my home network all running the ECMNET client. These
> boxes