Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: VIA Southbridge bug (Was: Crash on boot (2.4.5)) | From | Adam Sampson <> | Date | 10 Jul 2001 22:24:21 +0100 |
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Ville Herva <vherva@niksula.hut.fi> writes:
> It is coded is assembly specificly to heat the CPU as much as possible. See > the README for details, but it seems that floating point operations are > tougher than integers and MMX can be even harder (depending on CPU model, of > course). Not sure what kind of role SSE, SSE2, 3dNow! play these days. > Perhaps Alan knows?
I would have thought this would be a nice problem for a genetic algorithm to solve---start with random blocks of data, execute them repeatedly for a period of time (restarting upon CPU traps), and "breed" those that cause the greatest temperature increase. Any bored research students out there?
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