Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 23:00:07 -0500 (EST) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@r74h25.res.gatech.edu> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Cc: taob@vex.net, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RSA 56-bit key challenge Message-ID: <199703010400.XAA01541@r74h25.res.gatech.edu> In-Reply-To: <199703010123.RAA12036@rah.star-gate.com> from Amancio Hasty at "Feb 28, 97 05:23:30 pm"
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> I ran this test on my PPRO 200Mhz 3.0-current as of a couple of weeks
> ago.
>
> Got this :
>
> {hasty} ./rc5-client-freebsd -m
> rc5-56-client: Performance testing with 1000000 crypts
> rc5-56-client: Complete in 3.347 seconds. (298812.07 keys/sec)
>
> The result looks to fast for me 8)
>
> So the next question am I am running the reference benchmark correctly?
I think that is correct. Here's what I got, dual PPRO 200, 256K
cache. (so I assume I could get about twice this if I ran two copies)
{r74h118:/usr/home/ken/dl:23:0} uname -a
FreeBSD r74h118.res.gatech.edu 3.0-SMP FreeBSD 3.0-SMP #0: Mon Jan 27 01:27:38 EST 1997 ken@r74h118.res.gatech.edu:/usr/src/sys-SMP/compile/panzer i386
{r74h118:/usr/home/ken/dl:24:0} ./rc5-client-freebsd -m
rc5-56-client: Performance testing with 1000000 crypts
rc5-56-client: Complete in 3.300 seconds. (303063.36 keys/sec)
> >From The Desk Of Brian Tao :
> > Anyone else dedicating spare cycles (or whole machines) to this
> > effort? I've got a 200-MHz Pentium cranking out just over 148000 keys
> > per second, which is pretty fast compared to numbers posted for
> > various Suns, SGI's and RS/6000's (see http://www.vex.net/~rasmus/rsa/
> > for our particular team effort). Linux systems seem to be 15% to 30%
> > faster on similar hardware though. :( Does anyone have numbers for a
> > dual-CPU system or a fast PPro system?
> >
> > http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/97challenge/
> > http://zero.genx.net/
> >
> > --
> > Brian Tao (BT300, taob@risc.org)
> > "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"
Ken
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Kenneth Merry
ken@r74h25.res.gatech.edu
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