On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Richard Woods wrote:
Paul Missman wrote:
I know that this might be earth shattering news for you,
but there is no such thing as poaching.
I think that folks who've been following the poaching discussion from
the beginning know that there is indeed such a thing, and what it
At 21:01 11/03/2001 -0500, George Woltman wrote:
Can prime95 take advantage of SMT? I'm skeptical. If the FFT is broken
up to run in two threads, I'm afraid L2 cache pollution will negate any
advantage of SMT. Of course, I'm just guessing - to test this theory out we
should compare our
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, John R Pierce wrote:
I feel it is ridiculous that George has to beg/borrow the latest
architecture in order to optimise Prime95. I also know from being a member
of the prime search community for the last three years the amount of hard
work George puts into the project.
At 09:58 02/24/2001 +, Brian J. Beesley wrote:
On 23 Feb 2001, at 22:18, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
After being away for five days recently, I noticed that my computer
(running Linux kernel 2.4.1, by the way -- 2.4.2 now) had rebooted.
Just a few hours later, it rebooted again --
At 14:57 02/03/2001 -0600, Ken Kriesel wrote:
snip
In the QA effort, we've seen a few instances already of errors caught
midway by doing a manual/email version of this. Brian Beesley had an error
detected this way in his run of a double-check of a 10-megadigit exponent.
This exponent takes
At 17:04 02/03/2001 -0500, Jeff Woods wrote:
At 04:48 PM 2/3/01 -0500, you wrote:
After hanging around the Anandtech DC forum for awhile, I'm convinced that
this completion time "problem" might be GIMPS biggest hurdle to getting
more participation. Very few "loonies" like us are willing to
