Hi there from Australia :o)
I'm relatively new to the list and have been religiously processing SETI@home data with 50% of my resources only since accidently discovering the software on November 5th 2000, after a life-long interest in the SETI Project.
It seems there are many intelligent technically-minded people on this list, so I have a quick question...
I've recently updated my machine to a P3-800mHz but the motherboard is only running at 133mHz, so for every floating point operation (FLOP) the reasonably modest CPU has to wait 6 clock cycles for the bus to catch up.
Do any of you bright people out there know of any Level 1 and/or 2 cache optimisation utilities out there? Or do you reckon the existing L1 / L2 architecture on board the Pentium-III is already running as good as it's going to get. (I'm shying away from hardware procedures such as "clocking-up" since I only do this on my older, superceded machines which are past their shelf-life anyway...)
With something like 3� teraFLOPs (3.54 x 10^12 operations) to calculate per workunit in SETI@home v3.03, even a minutely optimised method would be cummulatively advantageous.
Feel free to reply directly if this has already been discussed before or u want to avoid mailing list clutter :-)
Thanks in advance!
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Regards, Brett M.
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