Re: Performance Measurements

Ethan M. O'Connor (zudark@mit.edu)
Wed, 14 May 1997 11:08:26 -0400

At 10:50 AM 5/14/97 -0400, Eric Z. Ayers wrote:
>
>2^26 complementary pairs of keys tested: 35 seconds (approx. 3800k keys/sec)
>
>
>I wish I could use this cluster for deschall, but it doesn't belong to
>me. There are 24 of these cpus sitting around (mostly) idle on an
>internal lan somewhere in corporate america...
>
>-Eric.
>

I'll just note here that a single one of these Alphas would do
315997*2^20 keys/day; the 24 together would do 7583451*2^20,
which would put them at sixth in the rankings. Yikes :)

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