Long integers on the Cray?

[m...@eris.berkeley.edu]

Not sure where this ought to go, but these two groups look best.

Since Berkeley has just acquired a Cray, and I like playing with large
integers (100+ digits), having software to use the hardware that makes
the Cray go fast to deal with these becomes of interest. A quick
glance at the problem makes it look like you can do 1400+ bit adds in
1-2 nanoseconds/bit using the vector hardware.

Anyone got this (other than the NSA, who probably doesn't want to let
me have their code :-)? Anyone interested in it should I write it?

Thanx,
<mike

[Kenneth Ng]

Yeah, ask the guy that recently did the 30 million value of pi on
the Cray 2 over at NASA, I'll E-mail you a copy of the article.

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