On 2009-May-04 19:26:13 -0700, William Stein wrote:
>Unfortunately, it seems that this does *NOT* mean that if you write a
>little C program, spawn 128 threads, and watch them run, then you can
>do 128 times what you would do with 1 thread. You still can only do 8
>times as much as with 1 thread.
Recently, Sun donated a new machine to the Sage community. It's a Sun
T5240 with two SPARC T2 processors (8 cores total) and 32GB of RAM,
and runs Solaris 5.10. As with the other machines in the network, you
have access to your home directory from there; and provided you
haven't changed your pas
