Discussion related to cado-nfs

[paul zimmermann <Paul.Zimmermann@inria.fr>]

       Hi,

> The baseline RSA120 results for the k1om benchmark are outlined below:
> dual 6core Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E52603 && (8) Xeon PHI 5110P
> RSA120: 1.65 hours = >1 day   =   4.53089e+06/5940.38
> 
> If we compare to the baseline for RSA120 on the cado homepage:
> dual 8core Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E52650
> RSA120: 43.9 hours = ~2 days  =   ~158040
> 
> Comparison:
> It is unfair to directly compare 10 processors to 2, but here are the
> results anyway.
> 158040 / 5941 = 26.6x Speed-up!
> We could argue that they both exist as one computation node.

I'm not sure this comparison is correct. The 43.9 hours on
http://cado-nfs.gforge.inria.fr/ represent the total cpu time
of all 16 threads, thus the wall clock time was about 3 hours.
(Maybe we should also mention the wall clock time.)

I believe the 1.65 hours you mention represent the wall clock time,
not the total cpu time?

Paul