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Date:      Tue, 5 Jul 2005 15:40:12 -0700
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@haven.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        gnn@freebsd.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org, Garance A Drosehn <gad@freebsd.org>, "Jim C. Nasby" <decibel@decibel.org>
Subject:   Re: Summary: experiences with NanoBSD, successes and nits on a Soekris 4801
Message-ID:  <20050705224012.GB28034@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <2056.1120597435@phk.freebsd.dk>
References:  <20050705205956.GD49841@decibel.org> <2056.1120597435@phk.freebsd.dk>

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On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 11:03:55PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <20050705205956.GD49841@decibel.org>, "Jim C. Nasby" writes:
> >On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 05:44:49PM +0900, gnn@freebsd.org wrote:
> >> At Mon, 04 Jul 2005 10:25:34 +0200,
> >> Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >> > I played with developing that graph by removing lines from LINT
> >> > and see what compiled and what didn't.  Based on the progress I
> >> > made I would estimate the full graph will take about 1 CPU-year to
> >> > calculate by trial&error.
> >>=20
> >> Hmm.  Well, either I need a very fast CPU, or a more clever approach.
> >> I guess we'll see...
> >
> >How hard would it be to distribute this?
>=20
> It could trivially be distributed, but I think it is better to use
> a bit of brain to get a smarter approach first :-)

A CPU year isn't all that bad.  Write a bit of code to submit it as a
set of SGE jobs and I can turn it around in a few days without much
trouble.  We produce a bit over a CPU year per day on our FreeBSD
cluster. :-)  We regularly run problems that take a few CPU decades.

-- Brooks

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