Discussion related to cado-nfs

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

       Robert,

> Here are the results of the c180.merge.stdout.1file on git revision 23930bb
> 
> Total number of merges: 77037494
> Total number of removed columns: 77037498
> Final matrix has N=21924168 nc=21924008 (160) W=3727108580 W*N=8.17e+16
> W/N=170.00
> Total merge time: 13603.77 seconds
> Total usage: time 13604s (cpu), 11870s (wct) ; memory 58804M, peak 64849M
> 
> I'm glad I upgraded my RAM :-)

good to hear! Note you can decrease the memory usage of merge by decreasing 
the
maxlevel and/or target_density parameters.

Best regards,
Paul