In a message dated Tue, 12 Oct 1999 2:16:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Jeff Woods
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If you tried to "break them up", with, say, 100,000 "iterations" per user,
> then the person with 100,001 through 200,000 cannot even start 100,001
> until all 100,000 iterations of the last person had been finished.
>
> If you tried this, you'd only slow things down, because you'd have to send
> the "mid-test results" back to Entropia, and then out to the next tester,
> before they can start. That's what would slow things down -- the
> back-and-forth of the intermediate results.
>
> Yes, it takes a while, but its very much best for one person to just do the
> whole test, even though it's going to take two years.
Well, as completion time gets longer and longer, it becomes more likely that a user
will give up in disgust. This could be after several months of work is already
complete.
How about an option when you hit "QUIT GIMPS" to upload your P and Q files to
Primenet, so someone can at least finish the job?
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