Subject: Re: SETI@home clients being built
To: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@jocelyn.rhein.de>
List: current-users
Date: 06/20/1999 07:56:45
On Sun, Jun 20, 1999 at 08:07:49AM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> In <19990619153736.G10957@metro.poofy.goof.com>
> agrier@poofy.goof.com wrote:
> 
> > > Yes, it seems doing many FFTs.
> > 
> > Hmm...  I was always under the assumption that the FFT was by definition
> > an optimized discrete Fourier transform, and thus no floating point was
> > used.
> 
> Well, I'm not familiar with both SETI and FFT...
> 
> At least, a rc5-64 client on CATS is ~17 times as fast as
> a sparc client on SS1+. It has SA-110 optimized code, though.

Thats integer code, no FP.

	-is