> >Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 16:23:04 -0800 >From: Luke Welsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Mersenne: Google Compute project and Folding@home > >http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/cn/20020323/tc_cn/google_takes_on_supercomputing
It states in this article... >Though SETI@home hasn't uncovered any alien chitchat, distributed >computing has had its successes. Most recently, one effort with 210,000 >participating computers uncovered a 4,053,946-digit prime number, the >largest found so far. Now compare this with this taken from the current world test status page >Machines Applied on 23457 Accounts Server Synchronization 12 Dec 2001 >00:45 > > Intel Pentium 4 : 2250 Total exponents > merged : 242302 > AMD Athlon : 9886 Updated > only : 100822 > Intel Pentium III : 12852 Added for > testing : 42358 > Intel Pentium II : 3712 Retained in cleared > list : 4903 > Intel Celeron : 2459 Cleared tests > removed : 93261 > Intel Pentium Pro : 1531 Manual tests removed / > purged: 958 > Intel Pentium : 2843 > AMD K6 : 1453 Total Cleared by > PrimeNet : 317435 > Intel 486 : 113 > Cyrix : 1534 > Unspecified type : 398 > ---------------------- ------- > TOTAL : 39031 Now where on Earth does the figure of 210,000 computers come from?? regards Gordon (Finder of M2976221) _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
