ECM (was Re: Core 2 Duo and speed of computations)

[Peter Pein]

Ralf Stephan schrieb:
>> I'm curious -- are there any implementations of ECM out there for GPUs? I'm
>> not familiar enough with the math (yet) to do something like that myself,
>> but I'd think the parallel processing abilities of a GPU would make it a
>> natural choice for algorithms which require lots of sieving.
> 
> Just use ecm from ECMNET: http://loria.fr/~zimmerma/ecmnet/
> 
> Then, instead of using one instance of ecm, use n instances of ecm,
> with the number of curves to compute divided by n for each B1 setting
> (i.e. search depth). 100 per cent parallelization.
> 
> 
> ralf
> 
> 
Hmm... this link leads to a timeout, but
http://www.loria.fr/~zimmerma/records/ecmnet.html works for me.

Greetings,
 Peter