From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Aug 3 13:04:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA07142 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 3 Aug 1996 13:04:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA07123 for ; Sat, 3 Aug 1996 13:03:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA03113; Sat, 3 Aug 1996 23:09:13 +0300 Date: Sat, 3 Aug 1996 23:09:12 +0300 (EET DST) From: Narvi To: Joel Ray Holveck cc: garyh@agora.rdrop.com, kline@tera.com, kline@tera.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Mersenne Primes In-Reply-To: <199608031941.PAA17213@kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 3 Aug 1996, Joel Ray Holveck wrote: > > >> 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. Perhaps it can't be vectorized? Would it actually be possible to vestorize prime searcing programs? Sander > > -- > 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. >