At 12:41 PM 12/12/2001 -0800, Mary Conner wrote: >How would I go about giving an exponent I've been assigned to someone >else? From previous discussions, it seems as though PrimeNet would reject >the assignment as not belonging to him, but I've seen exponents moved from >one account to another without expiring, so I know it can be done. I >haven't been able to find any option on Prime95's menus, or anything on >the web page about how to do this so that PrimeNet will accept the >reassignment.
To begin with, several important people in the GIMPS project, and many people who know far more than I do about it, read this list. It'd likely be best not to follow my advice until you see if any of them have a better idea. That said, the server only assigns a new assignment every few minutes. If you were to release the assignment at a time of the day when the server isn't busy (check the assignments out report to get a feeling for when that is) and, coordinating by instant messaging, on the phone, etc, the other user were to (having increased his number of days of work to queue significantly) manually request work (in the advanced menu), there's a fair chance he'd get the exponent you'd just released. You could then send him the save file. The other alternative, of course, and likely a better one, would be to email the folks at PrimeNet and ask them if they could manually transfer the assignment to the other user's account. Nathan _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
