Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 21:27:17 10/10/01
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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... > >Who is compiling them now? Only Eugene so far as I know... > >How hard is it to get time on a Cray? > Have you noticed a "lack" of "cray blitz"? Draw your own conclusion. :) The machines sell for $60,000,000.00 or so. So yes, it takes a lot of haggling to get time... At one time CPU time was going for $20,000 per hour... > > >Slate
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