Subject: Re: heterogeneous clusters?
To: None <tech-cluster@NetBSD.org>
From: Aaron J. Grier <agrier@poofygoof.com>
List: tech-cluster
Date: 10/26/2003 23:03:46
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 07:19:38AM -0400, Robert F. Schaefer wrote:
> Sounds like you're in a similar position to me. I'm thinking of
> placing boxs in strategic locations throughout the house, and running
> a distributed temperature-management app... ^_^
sounds good... my machines are beneath my bedroom; maybe I could
arrange something like this too. (:
> What dos your propotype do?
searches for factors of fermat numbers. (2^(2^n) - 1). the old
hardware seems to do decently at it even though the algorithm I'm using
is fixed point.
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