From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Aug 3 12:42:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA04789 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 3 Aug 1996 12:42:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu (kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu [128.52.46.40]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA04755 for ; Sat, 3 Aug 1996 12:42:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12GNU) id PAA17213; Sat, 3 Aug 1996 15:41:38 -0400 Date: Sat, 3 Aug 1996 15:41:38 -0400 Message-Id: <199608031941.PAA17213@kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: garyh@agora.rdrop.com CC: kline@tera.com, kline@tera.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org In-reply-to: (garyh@agora.rdrop.com) Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Mersenne Primes From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> 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. Is this factoring in code optimized for a Cray? On typical mundane code, the Cray is nothing spectacular; just for code that has been vectorized. -- http://www.wp.com/piquan --- Joel Ray Holveck --- joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu The number you have reached is an imaginary number. Please rotate your phone 90 degrees and try again.