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Foil 15 Features of CLIENT CODE

From HPCC Futures Topic 3: Role of Web Technologies in HPCC Trip to China -- July 12-28,96. by Geoffrey Fox * See also color IMAGE

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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