Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 13:47:38 -0700 (PDT) From: garyh@agora.rdrop.com (Gary Hanson) To: kline@tera.com (Gary Kline) Cc: kline@tera.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Mersenne Primes Message-ID: <m0umR8E-0008vwC@agora.rdrop.com> In-Reply-To: <199608021817.LAA26428@athena.tera.com> from "Gary Kline" at Aug 2, 96 11:17:06 am
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> 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
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