In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Will Edgington writes:
>See ECMNet. I'm pretty sure there's a link off www.mersenne.org and
>off my mersenne.html. There's a new server/client setup that's
>apparently almost as automatic as Prime95/PrimeNet. (I haven't had
>time to try it yet). But note that ECMNet is trying to completely
>factor various numbers, including the Mersennes with exponents into
>the low thousands; it is not trying to find factors of the Mersenne
>numbers that GIMPS is interested in. If you want to do the latter,
>use Prime95.
I didn't know they had anything automated. That's a big plus for them.
The problem with ECMNet is ECM. Although it's a useful tool, after a
point it becomes useless. NFSNet, was one of the only large-scale SNFS
efforts, and made excellent progress filling in the Cunningham
Tables.
Perhaps I should have been more clear. What I think we need is more of
a "clearing house" approach, with a client/server relationship
employing probabalistic and guaranteed methods to factor numbers in
the minimum time.
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