[geeks] Massively parallel... cheap?

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Mon Mar 25 01:30:12 CST 2002


On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 01:09:56AM -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 02:02:51AM -0500, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > If he can break the large matrix for the neural net into 4x4 ones, then 
> > Altivec would definately usefull.  Are things like Altivec usefull when
> > working with that don't easily subdivide?
> 
> Why not just Seti at Home style distributed computing with people off the
> geeks/rescue lists?  I'm sure we all have hardware to spare... 8-)

Well, he would have to be more specific about what he was doing for us to
want to help out (speaking mainly for myself).  And so far he hasn't shown 
any interest in doing so.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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