On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 06:47:32PM -0800, Greg Edwards wrote: > I think I have misunderstood the references to "multi-processor" L-L tests. > Dr Nowak's M42 was found in 50 days on his 2.4GHz P4, and verified in 5 days > on an Itanium 16p machine, but it looks like the Itanium app was > single-threaded.
The 50 day figure would be because the machine was running only part time. According to the mersenne.org benchmarks page, a 2.4GHz P4 would take about 20 days if it was running full time. _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
