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Date:      Sat, 3 Aug 1996 15:41:38 -0400
From:      Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
To:        garyh@agora.rdrop.com
Cc:        kline@tera.com, kline@tera.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD and Mersenne Primes
Message-ID:  <199608031941.PAA17213@kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <m0umR8E-0008vwC@agora.rdrop.com> (garyh@agora.rdrop.com)

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 >> 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.

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http://www.wp.com/piquan --- Joel Ray Holveck --- joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu

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