From: Adam Sampson <azz@gnu.org>
To: Ville Herva <vherva@mail.niksula.cs.hut.fi>
Cc: Rob Landley <landley@webofficenow.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: VIA Southbridge bug (Was: Crash on boot (2.4.5))
Date: 10 Jul 2001 22:24:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ith0a35m.fsf@cartman.azz.us-lot.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E15JIVD-0000Qc-00@the-village.bc.nu> <01070912485904.00705@localhost.localdomain> <20010710121724.Z1503@niksula.cs.hut.fi>
In-Reply-To: <20010710121724.Z1503@niksula.cs.hut.fi>
Ville Herva <vherva@niksula.hut.fi> writes:
> It is coded is assembly specificly to heat the CPU as much as possible. See
> the README for details, but it seems that floating point operations are
> tougher than integers and MMX can be even harder (depending on CPU model, of
> course). Not sure what kind of role SSE, SSE2, 3dNow! play these days.
> Perhaps Alan knows?
I would have thought this would be a nice problem for a genetic
algorithm to solve---start with random blocks of data, execute them
repeatedly for a period of time (restarting upon CPU traps), and
"breed" those that cause the greatest temperature increase. Any bored
research students out there?
--
Adam Sampson <azz@gnu.org> <URL:http://azz.us-lot.org/>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-10 23:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-25 6:17 Crash on boot (2.4.5) Andy Ward
2001-06-25 6:32 ` VIA Southbridge bug (Was: Crash on boot (2.4.5)) Steven Walter
2001-06-25 7:06 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-30 13:58 ` Pavel Machek
2001-07-08 17:37 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-09 16:48 ` Rob Landley
2001-07-10 9:17 ` Ville Herva
2001-07-10 15:28 ` Hardware testing [was Re: VIA Southbridge bug (Was: Crash on boot (2.4.5))] Rob Landley
2001-07-11 4:18 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-07-11 8:43 ` Ville Herva
2001-07-11 9:11 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-07-11 15:05 ` Rob Landley
2001-07-12 6:57 ` Ville Herva
2001-07-10 21:24 ` Adam Sampson [this message]
2001-07-11 8:32 ` VIA Southbridge bug (Was: Crash on boot (2.4.5)) Ville Herva
2001-07-11 9:03 ` Eyal Lebedinsky
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-06-25 19:55 Andy Ward
2001-06-25 19:57 Andy Ward
2001-06-25 20:27 ` David Grant
2001-06-26 9:10 ` pazke
2001-07-10 9:12 David Balazic
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