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Re: [LUG] Raspberry Pi now 100% Open Source on the ARM side - clusters
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- Subject: Re: [LUG] Raspberry Pi now 100% Open Source on the ARM side - clusters
- From: David Monks <j.d.monks@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 05:33:53 +0100
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>> [...]
>> clearly at the end we would need to find some sort of app that would run
>> to prove its using multiple processors.
>>
>> even if this is a simple programme to calculate PI.
>
>
> And there's the issue - just how to you break up a problem like calculating
> Pi into something that will run on more than one processor?
>
> [...]
> Back to things like Pi - is there an algorithm that says: generate N digits
> starting from digit Y? If there is, then throw it at X processors and off
> you go...
> [...]
As it happens, there is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe_formula
David
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