Well sure, I mean you could, in theory, take the gui part of prime95 and make it a standalone thing, perhaps getting the vitals using snmp or wmi or some other such thing.
The service part though, especially for multi-cpu, does need to be paid attention to in the code itself, allowing multiple instances to run, with certain cpu affinities being set, etc. Since most of those functions for the practical operation are in place, I doubt George has *that* much extra work (although it is tricky, and we all appreciate it). It would be cool to have the stats available via some other method, so other "front-ends", as you say, could read that info and display it in some creative way. Nothing like the SETI screen saver, although hey, why not, if someone wanted to. Yeah, screen savers reduce how much cpu time is available for calculations, but if it gets someone to run Prime95 that wouldn't have before, *some* cpu time is better than none at least. > -----Original Message----- > From: Gareth Randall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 3:59 PM > To: George Woltman; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Aaron > Subject: Re: Mersenne: W2K service installation problems > > > Hi, > > I'm no expert on windows programming, but take a generally > downbeat view of the > amount of ongoing time and effort required to code for the > "proprietary API of > the week" that seems to characterise this OS. > > Consequently, is it possible for someone to code a service > "wrapper" that spawns > the prime service as an additional process? In other words, > separate out the > service management and icon code into a separate process, > which can be developed > by a larger public group, rather than have all this code in > prime.exe itself > with the corresponding requirement that the coding effort all > fall on the > shoulders of one person. > > This would allow outside parties to develop the most fancy > and functional > frontends, and be able to do all the compilation steps > themselves while > circumventing the need to have access to the necessarily > secret encryption > algorithm that protects the authenticity of results. > > Can this be done? Surely this one's a runner? > > Yours, > > Gareth _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
