If it's just one exponent, cut and paste that line from the worktodo.ini file and copy your temp files (p????? and q?????) to the other machine. And just start 'er up.
Even though it's not assigned to you, an exponent that has already been started work on will not be released. It'll just complain each time you update results that the exponent is not assigned to you, but it will still finish it up and you'll still get credit for it when you're all done. I know this from my "poaching" days. ;) If work hasn't already begun on it, then there's probably no good reason to transfer it anyway, so I'm sure we're talking about work in progress. Much easier than the methods below. :) Aaron > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mersenne-invalid- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Nathan Russell > Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 2:17 PM > To: Mary Conner; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Mersenne: Moving an assignment > > 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 _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
