Mike,
Will you consider posting all your observations, objections, suggestions and
questions to the GIMPS forum at mersenneforum.org? There, you could get
responses directly from PrimeNet administrators and others more knowlegeable
than I. I'm fairly sure that some of the people who could give you
authoritative answers do not subscribe to this mailing list, so you'd be likely
there to get better answers than I can provide.
> In return, I think it is reasonable to expect something
> back from GIMPS, including reasonable planning for failures.
You could explore that topic at mersenneforum.org, with a much wider audience
than you have here.
> What I do care about is that there are members of the GIMPS
> project who DO care, and who are seemingly being treated in a
> cavalier manner.
You could express that opinion at mersenneforum.org, with a much wider audience
than you have here. Why not do so?
> Also, that there seems to be complete incomprehension of what
> constitutes a reasonable manner of managing this project, in this
> particular regard.
You could explore whether such incomprehension actually exists _far_ better at
mersenneforum.org than you can here.
> If the hardware is capable of running v5, then it is capable of
> running v4 concurrently, almost surely.
You could get authoritative verification (or admission!) of that by posting at
mersenneforum.org.
> Having run such kinds of software myself,
... which marks you as someone who could make valuable contributions to
GIMPS/PrimeNet at mersenneforum.org!
> I find it difficult to imagine it would place an unreasonable load
> on the hardware to run both v4 and v5 server software on it
> concurrently. I'm not intimately familiar with this particular
> software,
If you inquire at mersenneforum.org, you could directly converse with those who
_are_ intimately familiar with that software!
> so there is a possibility that it would unduly tax the existing
> hardware, but I find that difficult to consider as being very
> probable.
You'd have a much better opportunity to determine its probability at
mersenneforum.org than you have here.
(BTW, I'm not saying this list is useless [I wouldn't post here if it were!];
I'm saying that the sorts of issues you have raised on this list are right in
the category of those that could receive better-informed responses, or at least
receive them sooner, at mersenneforum.org than here.)
> I mentioned here that I can think of at least two ways of running
> the v4 software concurrently with v5, at least one of which does
> not even require the same architecture for the hardware.
It could be of enormous benefit to GIMPS for you to post items such as that to
mersenneforum.org. If I tried to be an intermediary, there would undoubtably
be something "lost in the translation".
Richard Woods
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