Changes between Version 17 and Version 18 of HomogeneousRedundancy

Timestamp:

Jul 29, 2016, 1:21:26 PM (8 years ago)

Author:

davea

Comment:

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HomogeneousRedundancy

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  and results can be validated using a 'fuzzy comparison' function that allows for deviations of a few percent.
 
-Other applications are 'divergent' in the sense that small numerical differences lead to unpredictably large differences in the final output.
+Other applications are 'divergent' in the sense that small numerical differences
+lead to unpredictably large differences in the final output.
 For such applications it may be difficult to distinguish between results that are correct
 but differ because of numerical discrepancies, and results that are erroneous.
@@ -41 +42 @@
 
  0:: No homogeneous redundancy (all hosts are numerically equivalent)
- 1:: A fine-grained classification with 80 classes (4 OS and 20 CPU types).
- 2:: A coarse-grained classification in which there are 4 classes: Windows, Linux, Mac-PPC and Mac-Intel.
+ 1:: A fine-grained classification with ~80 classes.
+ 2:: A coarse-grained classification ~15 classes.
+
+Types 1 and 2 divide hosts by OS (Linux, Windows, Mac, FreeBSD, Android).
+Type 2 subdivides by CPU architecture (Intel, PPC, ARM).
+Type 1 subdivides by a finer CPU classification that distinguishes
+Celeron, Pentium, AMD Athlon, AMD Opteron, etc..
+
+NOTE: this is out of date; it doesn't reflect current CPU models.
 
 The proper classification depends on your application,