From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Aug 2 13:47:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA29612 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 2 Aug 1996 13:47:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (root@agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA29601 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 1996 13:47:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by agora.rdrop.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #17) id m0umR8E-0008vwC; Fri, 2 Aug 96 13:47 PDT Message-Id: From: garyh@agora.rdrop.com (Gary Hanson) Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Mersenne Primes To: kline@tera.com (Gary Kline) Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 13:47:38 -0700 (PDT) Cc: kline@tera.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199608021817.LAA26428@athena.tera.com> from "Gary Kline" at Aug 2, 96 11:17:06 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > This sound like great fun as well as being > a good challenge for the teckkies among us. > > I guess it would be asking a bit much for a > P5 to go up against an XMP (or whatever it was > that Slowinski used). There was some data in the first announcement that I saw about the project (or perhaps on the web site) that *in this application* 4 Pentium 133(?)s = one Cray. One of the points of the project is that a whole horde of 486es and Pentiums can do work traditionally associated with supercomputers (the RSA-129 factoring project is another example). --Gary Hanson