Don't give up on those 24,000 PII hours yet - they can factor, it only
floating point math that messes with the video (ati rage pro I think?)
Louis Towles
----- Original Message -----
From: Marc Getty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Mersenne List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 2:39 PM
Subject: Mersenne: Macintosh Speeds
>
> Okay, so I am here at my new job, got permission to install a GIMPS client
on a
> bunch of machines, cool. It turns out that >50% of the machines that I can
> install a GIMPS client on are a specific model of Dell that when Prime95
is
> running causes the video to flicker REALLY bad. So there goes about 24,000
PII
> MHz down the drain because of poor design by Dell.
>
> So in my quest to add more machines to GIMPS I run across 20+ Macs that
are in
> perfectly working order in a storage room. They have been obsolteted
simply
> because they are Macs, and are all mid range Power Macs to low end G3s.
The room
> with plenty of power and plenty of network drops. Perfect dedicated GIMPS
> clients in my opinion!
>
> Now my question to the list is, would I be better off having these
machines
> participate in GIMPS via MacGIMPS on MacOS or should I run mprime on
Linux? My
> main concern is performance. Which performs better on the same hardware,
> MacGIMPS or mprime? I would guesstimate that they all have ~32 MB of RAM,
and
> those that do not can get upgraded to 32 MB easily. Which route should I
take?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help!
>
> -Marc
>
> Marc Getty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Department of Dental Informatics, Temple University
> http://www.temple.edu/dentistry/di/ 215-707-8192
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