Mersenne: reconfigurable MP processor

2001-04-02 Thread EWMAYER
This is interesting: http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/03/30/langley.supercomputer/index.html I wonder what the power dissipation for such a beast is? Sure, each FPU one creates within the programmable logic may run at only ~100-200 MHz (typical numbers for high-end programmable logic), but if

Mersenne Digest V1 #835

2001-04-02 Thread Mersenne Digest
Mersenne Digest Monday, April 2 2001 Volume 01 : Number 835 -- Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 15:53:58 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mersenne: problems with Solaris nice I run Mlucas on several Sparcs under

RE: Mersenne: P III 750 -E (B) Problem with MS Me

2001-04-02 Thread Bjoern Hoffmann
Brian J. Beesley wrote: I have a little problem with a PIII 750 MHZ notebook, that is running prime on a 11 mio digit. It's really too slow, about a 0.4x per iteration, should be a 0.2x... Where is the problem? (1) as other people have suggested, powersaving mode. If this is the

Mersenne: graphical image of factoring work being done

2001-04-02 Thread Henk Stokhorst
L.S., I wrote a small program in Delphi that uses the 'nofactor' files produced by 'decomp' as input to create a graphical image of the work that has been performed on factoring. It creates a scalable image such as can be found at http://home.planet.nl/~tha/overview20010402.gif The .exe

RE: Mersenne: graphical image of factoring work being done

2001-04-02 Thread Hoogendoorn, Sander
Henk Stokhorst wrote: I wrote a small program in Delphi that uses the 'nofactor' files produced by 'decomp' as input to create a graphical image of the work that has been performed on factoring. Thanks, this is something i've been looking for, much easier then importing the file into Excel