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Subject: Re: Status of EGTB generation

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 09:12:33 08/01/03

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On August 01, 2003 at 00:22:36, Pham Hong Nguyen wrote:

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>>>That's all I know at the moment.  I'd assume 200 gigs will be available
>
>Oops, unbelievable. Curious questions: what system do you use
>for generating and storing that size? how long does it take?

Windows systems, of course -- what else do you expect? :-)

Mainly with 1Gb of RAM. One dual PIII/550 has 2Gb of RAM.

Generation, compression, and verification takes from ~1 week to ~5 weeks.

>Do you think I should buy a mainframe for just using this table? ;)

No -- Windows, Unix, and even Linux is Ok :-)

Thanks,
Eugene



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