Author: Slater Wold
Date: 21:43:57 10/10/01
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On October 11, 2001 at 00:27:17, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On October 10, 2001 at 22:55:27, Slater Wold wrote: > >>On October 10, 2001 at 22:36:01, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On October 10, 2001 at 16:55:16, Olaf Jenkner wrote: >>> >>>>>Some took hours on a Cray (Stiller). Figure months on a PC for those. >>>>>No idea how long the really bad ones will take (kppkpp for example.) >>>>>The promotion cases will certainly take a _long_ while... >>>> >>>>Didn't use Stiller the connection machine? >>>>I remember that I read 1991 about this. >>>> >>>>OJe >>> >>> >>>He used both. Burton Wendroff/Tony Warnock got him some time on a C90 >>>sometime in the 1993 time frame... The advantage of the C90 is that it >>>comes with 32 gigabytes of RAM, which was helpful for making the generator >>>run very fast... Of course, he didn't do any compression, and he couldn't >>>write the files out to anything for saving them... but he did compute some >>>statistics about them before chucking them. >> >>Any idea where to get those statistics Bob? > > >I believe Lewis published some of them quite some while back. But the >thing he published was mainly "deepest mate" and the like. I didn't follow >this very closely, and only remember Wendroff asking for "my contact" up at >Cray in trying to set the time up... Ok. Thanks. > > > > >> >>Who is compiling them now? > >Only Eugene so far as I know... On what? And how is he doing the 6 pieces? I thought you needed a 64-bit OS and a LOT of memory and HD space. > > > >> >>How hard is it to get time on a Cray? >> > >Have you noticed a "lack" of "cray blitz"? Draw your own conclusion. :) Well, it was running at one time! What's the difference between then and now!?! > >The machines sell for $60,000,000.00 or so. So yes, it takes a lot of >haggling to get time... Jeez.... > >At one time CPU time was going for $20,000 per hour... Man oh man. I went looking up Cray's, (other than www.cray.com) and all I could find was crap about Cray, Inc. suing the United States of America. (The CIA was one of the organizations involved.) So renting one for a day is pretty much outta the question for me.....as I don't have $480,000 to blow. What a shame. > > > > > > >> >> >>Slate
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