IP: re National Science Foundation to Fund Supercomputer

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: Mary Shaw <mary.shaw () cs cmu edu>
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
> MMDF-Warning:  Parse error in original version of preceding line at 
> postoffice.srv.cs.cmu.edu
> Subject: Re: re National Science Foundation to Fund Supercomputer
> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 14:28:23 -0400
> > >           . . .        the SETI
> > > grid... a novel and apparently hugely successful collection of computers
> that
> > > probably already exceeds (and ultimately COULD exceed by probably many
> > > orders of magnitude) the capacities of the proposed DTF...
>
>
> A similar project, the PrimeNet Server, is doing distributed primality
> testing, hunting for Mersenne primes.  They were claiming sustained
> throughput of 1.4 teraflops/sec as of last March, and the  current summary
> at http://mersenne.org/primenet/ says they've averaged 1555.8 GLOP/s for the
> past 7 days.
>
>
> Mary



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