Re: RC5

["Barrett G. Lyon" <blyon netpr com>]

Someone about a month ago wrote this:

<snip>
Mixing Oranges and Lemons for comparison isn't quite right.  Then,
comparison of computers based on that one benchmark isn't proper.  There
should be improved code coming in the next set of updates which tests out
about double performance on Alpha systems. ~750kkeys/s on a 433MHZ system.
I've tried it on my Multia, though and it only improved by 5%.  Of course
the chip is totally different.

My roomate thought his computer was faster just because of the simple RC5
key rate.  Then I showed him the DES keyrate and compared MPEG compression
times.  That shut him up for a while.
<snip>

I want that RC5 client :)  Where can I get it?


At 02:04 PM 11/12/98 -0700, you wrote:
>On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Andrew Hobgood wrote:
>
>> > I remember someone was saying something about a new RC5 client that would
>> > offer Alpha a bit more performance...  anyone have any info on it?
>> 
>> Newp... my 21164A 533 still only gets about 380-400 kk/s, which is horrible
>> compared to most other boxen these days.  DES is another story entirely 
>> though... heh.
>
>Hmm, what version of the client are you running? On my PC164-500, I
>get 520 kks/s with the v2.7100.414 client. This is the OSF client,
>rc5des-osf-alpha-tar.gz at the ftp sites. It is a statically-built osf
>client, so you won't need any osf libraries.
>
>Methinks you're running one of the linux-alpha clients.
>
>As to GIMPS, IIRC, that will be the first new project for the new
>clients. Hopefully these new clients will be released sometime this
>millenium. ;->
>
>Mike
>
><*> Michael Larocque - mlarocque@shaw.wave.ca <*>
>An idle CPU is a terrible thing to waste - www.distributed.net
>
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