Hello, Gurus: At home I have 2 PC's, both of which devote their spare cycles to GIMPS. One is a 1.3 GHz P4 running W98, and the other a dual 1 GHz P3 running linux. One of the P3's is doing LL testing, and the other is doing mostly ECM, with a little trial factoring thrown in.
The only part of Prime95 that uses the SSE2 P4 instructions is the LL testing. Because of the huge speedup this gives, I would like to keep the P4 machine doing nothing but LL tests. It is now about a month away from finishing its first 10 megadigit candidate. My question is whether it is worth the trouble to shift the trial and P-1 factoring of the next one to one of the P3 processors (the non-LL one). It might lead to one extra LL test in two years. The worktodo file for the P4 has: Test=current,68,0 Test=next,60,0 It should be noted that the W95 machine does not have enough RAM for phase 2 of the P-1 factoring, but the linux machine does. Any suggestions? TIA, Gerry -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gerry Snyder, AIS Director & Symposium Chair, Region 15 RVP Member San Fernando Valley, Southern California Iris Societies in warm, winterless Los Angeles--USDA 9b-ish, Sunset 18-19 my work: helping generate data for: http://galileo.jpl.nasa.gov/ _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
