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    SubjectRe: VIA Southbridge bug (Was: Crash on boot (2.4.5))
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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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    Adam Sampson <azz@gnu.org> <URL:http://azz.us-lot.org/>
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