I have been tracking the daily performance of GIMPS for some time. I predicted what we are seeing this week: a surge in performance of Primenet/GIMPS which I think is due to students returning to campus and starting up their machines. We saw this last year right at around 26-28 September.
Many students, those on the semester system, started back several weeks ago, but I think there are far more college campuses on the quarter system these days. Can anyone suggest an alternative reason why we suddenly crashed thru the 2 teraflops mark? The college students in the fall return with the latest and greatest processors, so they have an impact out of proportion to their actual numbers. spike _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
