klystron said:
alephnull said:
We have a cluster here we use for HPC and compiler research. While those machines won't be affected because they are setup to only boot into Linux, I bought one for myself to run code dangerous code on (some mmap tweaks live in kernel space) and watch movies/play games. My roommate is currently writing a Sudoku solver on it for a paper (Sudoku is NP hard I'm told).
Some of the Sony fans are getting really annoying. Just because YOU don't use it or don't know why anyone would want to use it, doesn't mean that no one does. The whole point of adding linux support was to let developers get familiar with the architecture without a huge investment. |
Sudoku is in NP for sure, but writing a routine to solve it should be trivial. If he's taken more than a couple of days he should consider another major.
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It's just a conference paper so he's not spending a whole lot of time on it, but with all these things most of the time is spent on tweaking parameters, measuring op counts, cache misses, runtime, etc.
