Basic HTML version of Foils prepared May 12 1996

Foil 18 Features of CLIENT CODE

From Lessons and Implementation -- RSA Factoring on the Web CRPC Annual Meeting -- May 14-17 1996. by Geoffrey Fox
1 General Number Field Sieve (GNFS)
  • legacy C code
  • uniprocessor (not network-aware)
  • internally fault-tolerant
2 GNFSD Wrapper Code
  • make a daemon out of GNFS
  • add knowledge of "task servers"
  • add external fault-tolerance to GNFS
in Table To:

© Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

If you have any comments about this server, send e-mail to webmaster@npac.syr.edu.

Page produced by wwwfoil on Sun Dec 14 1997