Basic HTML version of Foils prepared 12 May 1996

Foil 45 Features of CLIENT CODE

From General Collection of Foils for CRPC Annual Meeting CRPC Annual Meeting -- 14-17 May 1996 Argonne. by Geoffrey C. Fox


General Number Field Sieve (GNFS)
  • legacy C code
  • uniprocessor (not network-aware)
  • internally fault-tolerant
GNFSD Wrapper Code
  • make a daemon out of GNFS
  • add knowledge of "task servers"
  • add external fault-tolerance to GNFS



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