Version 25.11 is ready for testing. For most GIMPS users, this version only contains a few very minor bug fixes. If no serious bugs are reported this will become the official version linked to from the mersenne.org download page.
I'm sorry there is so little in this release for the average GIMPS user. Most of the changes were internal for the PFGW project -- an excellent program for searching for non-Mersenne primes. Download links: Windows: http://mersenneforum.org/gimps/p95v2511.zip Windows 64-bit: http://mersenneforum.org/gimps/p64v2511.zip Windows service: http://mersenneforum.org/gimps/winnt2511.zip Windows 64-bit service: http://mersenneforum.org/gimps/win64nt259.zip Linux: http://mersenneforum.org/gimps/mprime2511.tar.gz Linux 64-bit: http://mersenneforum.org/gimps/mprime-linux64.tar.gz Mac OS X: http://mersenneforum.org/gimps/Prime95-MacOSX-2511.tar.gz FreeBSD: http://mersenneforum.org/gimps/mprime2511-FreeBSD.tar.gz Mac OS X 32-bit command line: http://mersenneforum.org/gimps/mprime2511-MacOSX.tar.gz Mac OS X 64-bit command line: http://mersenneforum.org/gimps/mprime2511-MacOSX64.tar.gz Source: http://mersenneforum.org/gimps/source2511.tar.gz >From the included whatsnew.txt file: 1) PRP of k*b^n+c where b > 2 will be faster in many cases. 2) Zero-padded FFTs are about 3-4% faster. These FFTs are used in projects like SeventeenOrBust. 3) Mprime automatically sets the program to nice priority. Technically, this is not necessary since worker threads are set to the lowest possible priority. However, sysadmins might be alarmed to see a CPU intensive program not running at nice priority when executing a ps command (it takes a more complicated ps command to see that the CPU intensive threads are running at a lower priority). Bug fixes are described here: http://www.mersenneforum.org/showpos...07&postcount=2 _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
