Bill Rea wrote:
>Do people using the manual check out forms get in the Top Producers
>list? I ask because I've never been able to find myself in the list
>and I had an email from a former GIMPS contributor who claimed he
>got no credit for exponents tested through the manual check out/check in
>pages.
So far as I know, manual testing work doesn't get credited on the PrimeNet
top producers pages, but does appear on the GIMPS top producers pages:
http://www.mersenne.org./top.htm <== top 100 based on P90 CPU-years
http://www.mersenne.org./top2.htm <== everybody else
I don't know if manual testing results are included in the PrimeNet
total FLOPS throughput figure, which has jumped appreciably in the
last month.
Thanks to Scott for adding CPU MHz and program version fields to the
PrimeNet account status pages. One problem i noticed, however, is that
all of my manual testing machines are listed as running Prime95 v16,
even the ones that have in the past reported results using Mlucas.
Lastly, it would also be nice to be able to enter something other than
an x86 CPU type when requesting work from the PrimeNet server - right
now I'm just clicking on "pentium" for all my non-x86 machines, so as
to get an appropriate amount of work assigned. There could be preset
fields for the better-known RISC CPUs, e.g.
Alpha SGI/MIPS Sparc IBM RS6000 Mac/PowerPC
--------- --------- --------- --------- ----------
21064/ev4 R3000 Sparc 1 (not sure ?
21164/ev5 R4000 Sparc 2 about the ?
21264/ev6 R5000 Sparc 5 early ones) 401
R8000 Sparc 10 Power 1/SP1 403
R10000 Ultra 1 Power 2/SP2 G3
R12000 Ultra 2 Power 3/SP3 G4
and an "other" field, where users can manually enter a type and speed
for any other CPU types.
I've ignored fine distinctions, e.g. the Alpha ev45 and ev56 and MIPS 4400
in the above, and some of the types may be redundant, but the table is
only for purposes of illustration. If Scott decides this is worthwhile,
he can appeal to the axperts with various platforms for an appropriately
representative set of CPU types.
Cheers,
-Ernst
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