Re: Mersenne: Re: Mersenne Digest V1 #967

2002-06-10 Thread Henk Stokhorst
r company? > It has been available on the Dilbert website for quite some time. It does do mission statements. Can someone generate a mission statement for Gimps using this site? http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/games/career/bin/ms

Mersenne: Progress made in finding small factors in the entire GIMPS range

2002-06-10 Thread Henk Stokhorst
L.S., Weekly I make a graph of the file nofactors.cmp. It shows till what depth ranges of exponents have been factored. Currently the depth varies from 2^56 up to 2^73. The graphs are available as .gif images at http://home.planet.nl/~tha/mersenne/index.html YotN, Henk Stokhorst

Mersenne: Which changes have been made to the server

2002-04-02 Thread Henk Stokhorst
L.S., Does this signify some results have been judged invalid and need retesting? YotN, Henk Stokhorst. --- Mersenne Exponent Test Distribution Map --- Exponent Range Trial Factoring Lucas-Lehmer Double Checking Avail Out Factd

Re: Mersenne: A runaway P95 install script?

2002-03-21 Thread Henk Stokhorst
onent will be returned. The only way to contact that machine seems to be through the emailaddress in the client if even that is known to the server. YotN, Henk Stokhorst _ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatec

Mersenne: netconx

2002-03-21 Thread Henk Stokhorst
L.S., Any netconx teammember on the list that can contact me? YotN, Henk Stokhorst _ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers

Mersenne: /. article

2002-02-26 Thread Henk Stokhorst
http://slashdot.org factoring breakthrough? YotN, Henk Stokhorst _ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers

Mersenne: further code optimisation using a recompile?

2002-01-26 Thread Henk Stokhorst
already been handcoded. But it would be nice to know if a recompile with this compiler would improve throughput significantly, anyone? YotN, Henk Stokhorst _ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup

Mersenne: new milestone

2002-01-08 Thread Henk Stokhorst
L.S., With all the new machines getting steam, among them Pentium IV machines with the SSE2 code the throughput of primenet is increasing sharply over the last weeks, Today it broke the 3 Tflop barrier. > The virtual machine's sustained throughput* is currently > 3024 billion floating p

Mersenne: M4 completely factored!

2001-12-20 Thread Henk Stokhorst
L.S., Another milestone has been acomplished. M4 has been completely factored, two factors were found, 2^4 -1 = 15 = 3 * 5. more details at http://slashdot.org/ see: IBM builds a limited quatum computer. YotN, Henk Stokhorst

number of primenet machines Was: Mersenne: CNET coverage of M39: Very good

2001-12-16 Thread Henk Stokhorst
L.S., at the time of the discovery the amount of personal computers checking in results to primenet was around 20,000. I have no idea where the 210,000 number came from. YotN, Henk Stokhorst _ Unsubscribe & list

Mersenne: new stats and updated software

2001-12-09 Thread Henk Stokhorst
Delphi sourcecode in the zipfile can be trown away if not wanted. To use the program run the 'decomp -n lowerlimit upperlimit' utility first. The program can be found at: http://home.planet.nl/~tha/overview.zip YotN, Henk

Re: Mersenne: p-1 records

2001-12-05 Thread Henk Stokhorst
Nathan Russell wrote: >> 12348829 103 F 9722991869324431663702571958950 22-Feb-01 07:48 >> SCUM C7375CE26 > > > Is this a bug in the reporting software? I don't have the tools to > work it out exactly, but a 103-bit number should be slightly larger > than 2^103, or > 101412048018

Mersenne: p-1 records

2001-12-04 Thread Henk Stokhorst
Gordon Spence wrote: > > Currently my team report cleared list shows 338 double checks and 12 > double checked factored including this monster > > 6630223 87 DF 195139088771490335223859559 07-Apr-01 07:58 trilog > > (In fact when it was checked in PrimeNet initially rejected it because > it was

Re: Mersenne: energy consumption Prime95 on 130 computers

2001-11-22 Thread Henk Stokhorst
Tijl Kindt wrote: > * Does anybody know how much more energy would be consumed by running > Prime95 10 hours a day and on all workdays on 130 computers* > Depends on, if the systems are on anyway, there will be no noticeable difference. If they are switched on just to run prime95, whilst they

Mersenne: # Pentium IV

2001-11-17 Thread Henk Stokhorst
L.S., Another 'eagle eyed' observation ;-) Intel Pentium 4 :560 AMD Athlon: 8510 Intel Pentium III : 9737 Intel Pentium II : 3434 Intel Celeron : 2023 Intel Pentium Pro : 1617 Intel Pentium : 2800 AMD K6

Re: Mersenne: prime

2001-11-14 Thread Henk Stokhorst
George Woltman wrote: > In fact, one of the reasons I was a little suspicious of the report > this morning > was that I had not received the primenet email. It seems that the > eagle-eyed > Henk Stokhorst may have been the first to know that M#39 was uncovered. Achim Pass

Mersenne: prime

2001-11-14 Thread Henk Stokhorst
L.S., from the status.shtml page: --- Mersenne Exponent Test State --- Assigned in Tests Cleared Since Last Synchronization Factoring only: 8683 Factored composite: 13505 Lucas-Lehmer testing : 27314 Lucas

Re: Mersenne: some stats on primenet

2001-11-11 Thread Henk Stokhorst
eous on primenet assigned exponents. But it is an indication > how much air is in the number of processors active listed on the > primenet statuspage due to pc's that never finish an assigned exponent. Assume the amount of contributing processors to b

Mersenne: some stats on primenet

2001-11-03 Thread Henk Stokhorst
ue to pc's that never finish an assigned exponent. YotN, Henk Stokhorst. _ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers

Mersenne: server assigned factoring only.

2001-11-01 Thread Henk Stokhorst
? YotN, Henk Stokhorst _ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers

Re: Mersenne: number of processors participating

2001-10-29 Thread Henk Stokhorst
ontains more improvements so I wondered if it wouldn't be a good idea to inform users through the occasional newsletter. Particulary because it gives a 10% improvement for Pentium I, II and III users and it skips P-1 if it has been done. YotN, Henk Stokhorst. PS those abandoned assignments d

Mersenne: number of processors participating

2001-10-27 Thread Henk Stokhorst
hey have been reserved over a long time with a constant daily flow. Does anyone know more about this? YotN, Henk Stokhorst _ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers

Mersenne: new maillist started

2001-10-22 Thread Henk Stokhorst
ork being done etc. It is not the place to dicuss items that should be discussed on this list. The homepage can be found at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LoneMersenneHunters Happy hunting, Henk Stokhorst. _ Unsubscribe &

Re: Mersenne: graphical image of factoring work being done

2001-04-06 Thread Henk Stokhorst
L.S., The program I wrote to track other people's work in factoring exponents in and outside the server assigned ranges has now been updated too. It is now based on the same 'core' as the program used to generate a graphical overview of all factoring work done. If you downloaded htpp://home.w

Re: Mersenne: graphical image of factoring work being done

2001-04-03 Thread Henk Stokhorst
acy and speed. The other application has not been updated yet. YotN, Henk Stokhorst _ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers

Mersenne: graphical image of factoring work being done

2001-04-02 Thread Henk Stokhorst
e the input file from 'nofactor' to 'nofactor_old', create a new nofactor file with the same range and then run factor_changes_overview. Mail me for any questions. YotN, Henk Stokhorst _ Unsubscribe & list info

Re: Mersenne: prime95 - v21 progress

2001-03-08 Thread Henk Stokhorst
have that option. That version should only be available to people who have fast (700 MHz or more) machines running most of the day. That would help prevent exponents expiring multiple times. YotN, Henk Stokhorst

Re: Mersenne: Processor short family histories

2001-02-13 Thread Henk Stokhorst
Jud McCranie wrote: > At the time I got my Dell 20 MHz 386 (fall 1987) they had a 20 MHz > 286. ;-) If it is time to brag about our computers, I owned (still have it) a DAI homecomputer back in 1978 with a 8080A processor running at 2 MHz. And it was blazingly fast. YotN,

Mersenne: 39.000.000 range

2001-02-11 Thread Henk Stokhorst
L.S., If anyone is working within the range 39.000.000 - 40.000.000, please contact me to avoid double work, I plan to delve for factors over there. YotN, Henk Stokhorst _ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz

Mersenne: P-1 factoring only

2000-12-23 Thread Henk Stokhorst
L.S., I would enjoy it if it would be possible to have a prime95 version with a P-1 factoring assignments only option. My pc starts to crunch (literally, really, it starts to peep intermittantly like as if it needs lubricant) if I switch to LL testing. It would save time for the people prefering

Mersenne: factoring the higher exponents

2000-12-15 Thread Henk Stokhorst
done and can be done to avoid this? YotN, Henk Stokhorst _ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers

Re: Mersenne: Re: Output from nofactor.cmp

2000-10-30 Thread Henk Stokhorst
Gordon Spence wrote: > When I extract items from this file using decomp.exe from George, then ALL > of the > lines already say Factor= > How are you extracting them? with the wrong parameter, -t instead of -w ;-) YotN, He

Mersenne: bug in Wordpad?

2000-10-30 Thread Henk Stokhorst
this result? What OS would you recommend for such operations ;-) YotN, Henk Stokhorst _ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.exu.ilstu.edu/mersenne/faq-mers.txt

Mersenne: experimental x86-64

2000-10-06 Thread Henk Stokhorst
L.S., Anyone already working on a 64 bits version of Prime for AMD's Hammerfamily? YotN, Henk Stokhorst http://www.x86-64.org/ _ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne

Mersenne: Prime95 and Pentium III 1.13 GHz

2000-08-29 Thread Henk Stokhorst
Hi, for all of you who couldn't get their 1.13 GHz Pentiums working correctly with Prime95, there is a story on that at http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/00q3/000801/pentiumiii-01.html YotN, Henk Stokhorst _ Unsubs

Mersenne: weird behaviour Prime 95

2000-08-17 Thread Henk Stokhorst
? There are no energysaving programs installed other than switching of the monitor. Restarting Prime 95 gets the system monitor reporting 100% processor usage, however taking an iteration 40 times as much time as normal, quitting Prime95 then gets processor activity back to zero! YotN, Henk

Mersenne: new supercomputer

2000-06-29 Thread Henk Stokhorst
one around with some experience in hacking? YotN, Henk Stokhorst _ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers

Re: Mersenne: Browser Quick Stats Tip ... broke

2000-06-27 Thread Henk Stokhorst
a blank page returned. This problem started happening about the time of > the server's move south a couple of weeks ago. http://mersenne.org/cgi-bin/primenet_report.pl?UserID=youraccountID&UserPW=yourpassword YotN, Henk Stokhorst _

Mersenne: time needed for factoring

2000-05-17 Thread Henk Stokhorst
L.S., Just curious, what makes factoring 13.388.659 take four times as long as 13.375.793? YotN, Henk Stokhorst _ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam

Mersenne: FPU vs ALU

2000-04-24 Thread Henk Stokhorst
FPU of the Willamette should be preferred for LL testing? YotN, Henk Stokhorst. _ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers

Mersenne: new milestone

1999-07-13 Thread Henk Stokhorst.
L.S. we reached a new small milestone. The server is now handing out 10.000.000+ exponents. I just received my first one today for factoring. YotN, Henk Stokhorst. (I got 10.003.999) Unsubscribe & list info --

Re: Mersenne: Re: [First 10 million digit exponent]

1999-06-08 Thread Henk Stokhorst.
L.S., > And below M3600, there are 159,975 exponents (again repeating Brian) > with at least 10 million digits. Fine, but are the efforts being made in that region centrally registered? YotN, Henk Stokhorst. Unsub

Mersenne: FBI

1999-06-02 Thread Henk Stokhorst.
least he acknowledged : "My computer fraud-training consists of a two week program sponsored by the FBI" I wouldn't worry about your pc, instead worry about the safety of your country. ;-) YotN, Henk Stokhorst. Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm

Re: Mersenne: Screen saver killers?

1999-05-16 Thread Henk Stokhorst.
Rick, Sorry, I wrote the text from the point of view of someone in an office using his computer on which someone else installed prime95. I don't need the version for myself, but it's great to distribute among people who have no clue about primes. YotN, Henk

Re: Mersenne: Screen saver killers?

1999-05-16 Thread Henk Stokhorst.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Perhaps we should wait a few weeks, then poll a selection of users as to > whether they prefer to participate using a "Prime95 style" background > program or a "Seti@home" style screensaver. A working Prime95 screensaver program will certainly make it a lot easier to

Re: Mersenne: preventive measures

1999-04-10 Thread Henk Stokhorst
ttle more info on progress etc. Simple charts, just for the fun, in case there is nothing else useful to be done. Henk Stokhorst Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm

Mersenne: Bug in 17.x and the $50,000

1999-04-02 Thread Henk Stokhorst
wrong residu. YotN, Henk Stokhorst. Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm

Re: Mersenne: How to factor further?

1999-03-19 Thread Henk Stokhorst
david campeau wrote: > Hi, > > I have just that, sitting in one of my folders. It`s a modification to > prime95 ver 16.4. witch accept AdvancedFactor entry (but it does not > generate valid checksum i.e WS1: ). I also have a small program > that generate a worktodo.ini file based on the f

Re: Mersenne: Spontaneous account change

1999-03-14 Thread Henk Stokhorst
time to complete. However all my assignments were less than 10 days old. YotN, Henk Stokhorst. Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm

Re: Mersenne: VME claim

1999-03-13 Thread Henk Stokhorst
: 7060034896770543742372772105511569658378384779628943811708504827156734575902 9962497646848024880749924272446637457099914453082421646959773690663827212173 6526607699022870679030143158018123175881930939339869708632591433883 YotN, Henk Stokhorst Unsubscribe

Mersenne: VME claim

1999-03-09 Thread Henk Stokhorst
an be viewed at http://home.wxs.nl/~tha/Mersenne/endorse.gif YotN, Henk Stokhorst. - Meganet P-Time Deterministic Primality Test endorsed by world renowned mathematician. In response to your email inquiring about our Polynomial Time 100% Deterministic Prime Testing, we have attached the endors

Mersenne: Re: Mersennes for Martians

1999-02-27 Thread Henk Stokhorst
Spike Jones wrote: > Specifically, that we are so processor rich that we can afford > to squander it on amusing ourselves. Nope, they will just wonder what they have overlooked that makes Mersenne Primes so basic to a culture. YotN, Henk Stokhorst. PS. I once saw a TV documentary whe

Re: Mersenne: Completely Factored

1999-02-18 Thread Henk Stokhorst
Sander Hoogendoorn wrote: > Can sombody please tell me when a number is completely factored? When all factors of a number are known to be primes. YotN, Henk Stokhorst Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.ne

Mersenne: VME

1999-01-27 Thread Henk Stokhorst
L.S., I wrote the following email to VME, and got the response underneath it. What would be a nice simple test for them, they could run on their machine? YotN, Henk Stokhorst. --- L.S., Nice claim, but if it were true you of course would not object to join GIMPS (www.mersenne.com) and proof

Mersenne: no more exponents

1999-01-18 Thread Henk Stokhorst
L.S., >Getting exponents from server >Error 7: Server has run out of exponents to assign What? is n in 2^n -1 finite? YotN, Henk Stokhorst

Mersenne: ranking by Factorized number of years

1998-11-16 Thread Henk Stokhorst
this irregularly until Jay is up and running again. YotN, Henk Stokhorst

Mersenne: enhancement request

1998-11-12 Thread Henk Stokhorst
L.S., Would it be possible to have the next version sending all expected completion dates in one time, instead of one by one? Or are there objections to do so? YotN, Henk Stokhorst

Re: Mersenne: Question about double checking

1998-11-04 Thread Henk Stokhorst
George responded: > > At 07:49 PM 11/3/98 +0100, you wrote: > > > >Does that take into account the fact that a factor found does not > >require time to check, whereas a LL residue needs to be > >computed twice? > > Yes and no. I don't take it into account when I compute > the breakeven point, bu

Re: Mersenne: Question about double checking

1998-11-03 Thread Henk Stokhorst
George Woltman wrote: > The optimal breakeven point for factoring vs. LL testing > changes every time the factoring code or LL code changes. > In the old days, the breakeven point was 2^56, now its 2^57. Does that take into account the fact that a factor found does not require time to check, whe

Mersenne: factoring code

1998-10-25 Thread Henk Stokhorst
highest possible factor do result := Mersenne candidate divided by factor for number := first to last number in table do if result = number then factor found ; exit next number next factor to be faster. Of course it isn't, but why? YotN, Henk Stokhorst.

Re: Mersenne: factoring code

1998-10-25 Thread Henk Stokhorst
d the code a little bit, it says divide, whereas in the real code fourier transformations seem to be used. But I assumed more people would be familiar with dividing than fourier transformatios. YotN, Henk Stokhorst.

Mersenne: running prime95 on a floppy

1998-10-05 Thread Henk Stokhorst
r and rebooting it did not solve the problem. Yours on the Net, Henk Stokhorst.

Mersenne: fun

1998-09-21 Thread Henk Stokhorst
L.S., 'According to Carmer when highlighted words were "clicked" on in the "entropia.com" site, another screen showed a second screen." Rolling On The Floor Laughing Out Loud. Just imagine a judge with a basic understanding of the WWW presented this. YotN, Henk Stokhorst.

Re: Mersenne: A short gdunken on Aaron B's situation

1998-09-19 Thread Henk Stokhorst
John R Pierce wrote: > agreed. I discovered most of my HTTP clients at work were busy retrying ever 2 > minutes and not getting any work done today. The next version (16.x or whatever) should default to 240 minutes instead of 2. As long as the server is down less than the days of work to get (mi

Re: Mersenne: Outta here

1998-09-19 Thread Henk Stokhorst
quite some organizations of several kinds. Any organization of some size will have some discussions pop up every now and then. This whole thing is not an issue (imho). Lett it pass, such discussions should not keep one from ones objectives. Yours on the Net, Henk Stokhorst.