Bartek Kochan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> There is FFTW support for Cell processor: http://www.fftw.org/cell/ > >> porting prime search programs should be possible. Anyone ? > > > > About Mersennes, Prime95 is written in Intel assembler. No way to "port" it. > > But Glucas and Mlucas are written in C. But they used float. > > "Porting" them to Cell would take ... many months of work, I guess... > > There is a package called MERS, see > http://www2.tripnet.se/~nlg/freeware/freeware.html > which includes a program called fftlucas which does the trick using > the FFTW library. It is outdated though and using older version of > FFTW. I tried myself to adapt it to the new version of FFTW with CELL > support but no luck so far. Mind You my programming skills are very > poor.
Looks interesting, but I failed to download it from any of the ftp sites in that page :-( Do you know of any other sources for the package? Or could you email it to me? Thanks -- Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
