On 7 November 2010 19:40, nekopczynski <nekopczyn...@plymouth.edu> wrote: > I would like to start by thanking everyone who has posted a response. > I have spent some time researching some of the ideas listed here and I > am really interested in primes. More specifically computing mega > primes and their counter part -> twin mega primes. I believe given > the resources here at my university I should be able to successfully > acompolish this task. I will spend the remainder of the weekend > researching more on this topic. Thank you all for your posts > > nathan kopczynski
I'm sure for the Sage project, where a lot of the users are number theorists, primes and twin primes would be a useful area. Most of us have parallel machines, so would benefit from the speedup. The Sage project has a Sun T5240 which is a strange machine, with a pair of T2+ processors with 16 cores & 128 threads. We have never really got much performance from the T5240, as it is designed for use as a web server or similar applications. But it would be interesting to see how your programs if multi-threaded, would run on there. CUDA programming would in itself be of less use to Sage, as few as yet have the CUDA hardware. To my knowledge the Sage project has no CUDA machines, though Jason mentioned he can probably get you access to them. But CUDA is probably very useful on your CV as a computer science student. Most CS jobs are probably less interested in your experience with large primes. If you could combine your interest in computing large primes and twin primes, while doing it on CUDA, it might be more useful on your CV. I just did a quick job search on monstir.com. There are 44 jobs looking for CUDA experience, compared to 28 for Mathematica. Whatever you chose, I hope you enjoy it, but I'm just making the point CUDA could be very useful on your CV. It should be very possible to combine that with your interests in primes & twin primes. Dave -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
