Subj : Re: Got spare CPU cycles?
To   : comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.alpha,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware
From : Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez
Date : Tue Sep 07 2004 05:16 am

Uncle Al wrote:
> Do you have a Linux box sitting idle?  Your CPU cycles could help
> crunch a distributed problem.
> 
> If you have a MHz+ Linux box sitting idle, we will custom-compile the
> program for your iron (OS version and CPU) or furnish the source code
> and you can compile and optimize it (No Microsoft!  BillGates'
> compilers do not support 80-bit long_double_precision).  Toss in a
> thousand points to help fill the gap and extend the red meteor.  
>  http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/qzdense.png
> Wintel works 40% slower than Linux.  Post here, or contact Uncle Al at
> organiker''lycos.com
> 
> Motivation:  Einstein assumed everything falls identically in vacuum,
> hence metric gravitation (General Relativity).  Weitzenboek made no
> such assumption, hence affine gravitation.  While the maths are wildly
> different, the predictions are exactly identical... except either
> everything falls identically in vacuum or there is an exception. 
> Folks look at this stuff big time,
>  http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/eotovs.htm#b22
> 
> A possibly clever experiment in alpha-quartz
>  http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/qz.pdf
>  http://www.aps.org/meet/APR04/baps/abs/S690006.html
>  Bull. Amer. Phys. Soc. 49(2) 54 (2004)
> is being fabricated in Wuhan, China as you read this.  Full results
> are expected by summer 2005.  The submitted graph
>  http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/qzsparse.png
> has 711 points.  Alas, the diddle has amazing small scale structure, 
>  http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/eotovs.htm#b48
> so we are recrunching the analysis with a few more points,
>  http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/qzdense.png
> 17,200 points so far.
> 
> I'd like to fill the gap and extend the red meteor.  It's about 7
> minutes/point in fast iron.  Runtime/point increases as the square of
> the radius.  We can easily script 8-hour overnight runs.  Another
> 10,000-50,000 points would help.  The program eats 98+% of CPU cycles,
> but uses no other machine resources aside from the text output files.
> 
> You can help crunch quartz, or we will shoot this System
> Administrator.  No, wait... You can help crunch quartz, or we will NOT
> shoot this System Administrator.  "8^>)  If your iron is sitting there
> bored or unused, we can give its life meaning.  Post here, or contact
> Uncle Al at organiker''lycos.com
> 
> Thank you!
> 

I'll better use my free CPU cycles so Zippy can Psychoanalyse himself
in Emacs. It's good for your computer mental health.



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Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez
Director Tecnico de bgSEC
jkerouac@bgsec.com
bgSEC Seguridad y Consultoria de Sistemas Informaticos
http://www.bgsec.com
ESPAŅA

The only people for me are the mad ones -- the ones who are mad to live,
mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time,
the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn
like fabulous yellow Roman candles.
                 -- Jack Kerouac, "On the Road"

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