[mpir-devel] Re: Introduction

2008-12-04 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Bill Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Mariah, > > Thanks for the offer of help! [snip] Bill, the rest of that email was an extremely good "introduction to the MPIR project and how to help". Perhaps you are Mariah or somebody could post a nicely formatted ver

[mpir-devel] Re: Introduction

2008-12-04 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 4, 9:17 am, "Bill Hart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh that's right, I'm thinking of the FLINT trac. I am sure if Mariah wants to help out with FLINT you would give her an account, too :) > Thanks Michael! > > Bill. Taking about hardware: The CUDA box is coming today or tomorrow and s

[mpir-devel] Re: Introduction

2008-12-04 Thread Bill Hart
Oh that's right, I'm thinking of the FLINT trac. Thanks Michael! Bill. 2008/12/4 mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Bill Hart wrote: >> Hi Mariah, >> > > > >> I would think that a first step might be to get familiarised with the >> tickets in the bug tracker (note many of the blockers in re

[mpir-devel] Re: Introduction

2008-12-04 Thread mabshoff
Bill Hart wrote: > Hi Mariah, > > I would think that a first step might be to get familiarised with the > tickets in the bug tracker (note many of the blockers in red have been > resolved, but a couple are outstanding - I know Jason is still working > on the GCD patches - they currently run s

[mpir-devel] Re: ptlsim

2008-12-04 Thread Bill Hart
2008/12/4 David Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Dec 4, 2008, at 10:59 AM, Bill Hart wrote: > >> A quick update on ptlsim. >> >> Someone on the ptlsim list pointed out to me that when priming the >> cache, one needs to do this *during* the simulator run, not >> immediately before, as ptlsim al

[mpir-devel] Re: Introduction

2008-12-04 Thread Bill Hart
Hi Mariah, Thanks for the offer of help! That is great news for our project, and I think your expertise will be of great value to our project!! William Stein passed on to me that you looked at the list of things that we want to do and thought "the work looked interesting". If there is some parti

[mpir-devel] Re: ptlsim

2008-12-04 Thread jason
On Thursday 04 December 2008 16:07:09 David Harvey wrote: > On Dec 4, 2008, at 10:59 AM, Bill Hart wrote: > > A quick update on ptlsim. > > > > Someone on the ptlsim list pointed out to me that when priming the > > cache, one needs to do this *during* the simulator run, not > > immediately before,

[mpir-devel] Re: ptlsim

2008-12-04 Thread David Harvey
On Dec 4, 2008, at 10:59 AM, Bill Hart wrote: > A quick update on ptlsim. > > Someone on the ptlsim list pointed out to me that when priming the > cache, one needs to do this *during* the simulator run, not > immediately before, as ptlsim also simulates the caches and has no way > of accessing a

[mpir-devel] Re: ptlsim

2008-12-04 Thread Bill Hart
A quick update on ptlsim. Someone on the ptlsim list pointed out to me that when priming the cache, one needs to do this *during* the simulator run, not immediately before, as ptlsim also simulates the caches and has no way of accessing actual processor caches (or apparently of tracking what shou

[mpir-devel] Introduction

2008-12-04 Thread Mariah
Bill Hart, My employer has given me permission to spend some of my time working on MPIR development. I understand that you (and this group) are where I should find possible projects to work on. I would appreciate some small projects to start, so that I can learn about MPIR. While I have only b