Basic HTML version of Foils prepared May 12 1996

Foil 16 Hierarchical FAFNER Servers

From Lessons and Implementation -- RSA Factoring on the Web CRPC Annual Meeting -- May 14-17 1996. by Geoffrey Fox
http://cooperate.com/cgi-bin/FAFNER/factor.pl
Features
  • Fill out a form and click to check out
  • "Server in a Box" includes server code
  • and initial task allocation
  • Automatically refills from the original source
  • Configurable to meet local standards of decency:
  • selective availability of services
months of runtime, dozens of collaborators,
eight nations, four continents
hardware platforms from an i386 laptop to an IBM SP/2 (including HPs, Alphas, MIPS, Suns, SGI machines, RS6000s)
Most Heterogeneous and Geographically Dispersed Award, 3rd Annual HPC Challenge, Supercomputing '95.

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