Re: heterogeneous clusters?

"Aaron J. Grier" <[email protected]> Sun, 26 Oct 2003 23:03:46 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.cluster
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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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