On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Louis Towles wrote:
I tried this a few months ago on our E series Gateways (ATI Rage Pro)
Prime95 LL test - yes interference
Prime95 factoring - no interference
Distributed Net Client - no interference
FPU benchmark (I think it was ZD winbench's FPU test) - yes
POV-Ray is a multi-platform freeware raytracing program that makes heavy use
of of the FPU. You can download it from http://www.povray.org/ .
The Windows version will actually even render a test scene for you upon
installation so you don't have to know anything about using the program.
Kent D.
In the next 4 to 10 weeks, Entropia.com is willing to put up
$1500 for an ECM
largest-factor prize with a qualifier or two on our terms, using
PrimeNet 4.0.
The only catch is George has not yet built Prime95's ECM feature to use
PrimeNet. If there's enough interest you can collectively
I should have made explicit that "when we examined
the processor usage of the mainstream business
applications in the Winstone test, we found that
they do not use any floating point or MMX
instructions. Consequently, CPUmark99 doesn't
Kidding aside, suppose there was a real prize. For example, suppose a
third party offered a real prize, say $314,159, for the next Mersenne
prime. How would GIMPS split the money? Should it all go to the
individual? Seems that a fair amount should go to Woltman for writing the
program.
Mersenne Digest Friday, 29 January 1999 Volume 01 : Number 502
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From: "Brian J Beesley" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 11:45:12 GMT
Subject: Re: Mersenne: Meganet's alleged fast primality prover
Ditto on Aaron's excellent comments. I've added some of my own.
From: "Aaron Blosser" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 14:33:52 -0600
Subject: RE: Mersenne: Problems with ATI graphics
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2) I don't think heat is the problem. The problems start within 5-10
seconds of
2) I don't think heat is the problem. The problems start within 5-10
seconds of starting prime and stop as soon as prime is halted.
I never said anything about heat. I said electromagnetic radiation. It
emenates (sp?) from anything that is electrical. The more electricity,
themore
