HELP! * GREY=local LOCAL HTML version of Foils prepared December 3,95
Foil 4 Key Features of FAFNER/WebWork Dec 4,1995 -- II
From Webwork and its application to Factoring on the Web Supercomputing 95 -- December 3-8,95. byJim Cowie, Geoffrey Fox, Wojtek Furmanski * See also color IMAGE
Computer resource allocation performed with a combination of human and computer agents.
RSA155 -- a key of size used by significant enterprises -- is expected to require about 2 teraop-months
There is an interesting memory -- CPU tradeoff
Algorithms are more efficient with large memory but
Small memory machines cheaper and more common
Settop boxes would have 4-8 megabytes of memory each
We requires a 4 megabyte workspace as minimum
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