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Check out the Power Challenge

1.
Run your program again, for various numbers of children, on the Power Challenge (iris12). Compare the performance of the two machines.
2.
Use the hinv command on both machines to generate a hardware inventory. Compare the clock speeds of the two machines. How do you explain the results of your experiment based on the different hardware?



Allen B. Downey
2/24/1998