Both Gateway and Dell had this prob with the onboard video and the FPU on
some of their profile cases . Both have fixed it in their current lines but
have no way of dealing with it on the previous models.
Louis Towles
(#14 on the factoring list - just not by choice)
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>From: "Brian J. Beesley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Geoffrey Faivre-Malloy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: RE: Mersenne: The recent popularity of Factoring
>Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 07:39:15 -
>
>Geoffrey Faivre-
>From: Marc Getty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Mersenne: The Recent Popularity of Factoring
>Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 11:33:05 -0500
>
>
>
>While I do no use the undocumented FactorOverride feature, I do have 300+
>factoring assignments assigned to my TempleU-DI account. A
> > From: Willmore, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > value of 90 days. For some reason, I'm not allowed to get more than
> about
> a
> > month of factoring work. It's starting to cut into my efficiency. Is
> there
> > a way around this?
>
Paul Leyland wrote:
> Try joining the peopl
Brian J. Beesley wrote:
> A more general & more secure method of preventing the type of problem
> exposed by this incident would be to have the server enforce a quota
> for the maximum number of assignments issued to any user/computer id
> combo in a particular time interval e.g. 20 per
> From: Willmore, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> value of 90 days. For some reason, I'm not allowed to get more than about
a
> month of factoring work. It's starting to cut into my efficiency. Is
there
> a way around this?
Try joining the people at the bleeding edge. I've been factoring
> There is a point there, but I'm sure there are a few folks who just enjoy
> the thrill of finding a factor. There is, we must admit, a pleasure of
> discovery to seeing
>
> "Mxxx has a factor: yyy" several times a month that is
> utterly absent from seeing
>
> "Mxxx is
> Just so we know, how long would it take a 1.5 Ghz Athlon to factor 100
> assignments through 64 bits? In view of Moore's Law, that's
> about what we
> should figure on.
Well, my PII 500mhz can factor 1 number per day to 64 bits. So, it could
probably do 100 in 30 days or so...
G-Man
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>From: "Brian J. Beesley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Nathan Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: RE: Mersenne: The recent popularity of Factoring
>Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 18:57:51 -
>
> > What about this: 300 as
On 26 Mar 00, at 11:54, Nathan Russell wrote:
> What about this: 300 assignments per month. Going on vacation? No
> problem.
If you're running say a dozen systems then 12 * 300 = (IMHO) too
many.
If you're going on vacation, why not feed it some assignments which
will take a reasonable tim
>From: "Geoffrey Faivre-Malloy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Brian J. Beesley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: Mersenne: The recent popularity of Factoring
>Date: Sun, 26 Mar
> I appologize for the misunderstanding. The reason I was upset was not
> because you used ten machines to do factoring. Even two hundred machines
> doing factoring would not have changed the overall balance of
> GIMPS much.
> At the time of my message, I thought that you had deliberately gotten
> Thanks for "coming clean".
Hehehe...I was having fun while it lasted :)
> I'd call it an "unwanted feature". George, I think perhaps the easy
> way to handle this would be to check "UsePrimeNet" and refuse to
> execute AdvancedFactor assignments if UsePrimeNet=1.
I wouldn't say that it's an u
I appologize for the misunderstanding. The reason I was upset was not
because you used ten machines to do factoring. Even two hundred machines
doing factoring would not have changed the overall balance of GIMPS much.
At the time of my message, I thought that you had deliberately gotten
some
On 25 Mar 00, at 23:14, Geoffrey Faivre-Malloy wrote:
> The problem was caused by me testing the FactorOverride option and setting
> it to an abusrdly low value (56). The end result was that each exponent
> was test to to this value then the results were reported and it was
> removed from the wo
> I would suggest that, if this person wants to climb the regular list, he
> switch to double-checking, switching over two or three machines a
> day. This
> would gain him credit twice as fast /and/ he would still climb in the
> rankings daily, or very nearly so.
Why? That's what's great about
> I would urge the user concerned to report what happened and also to
> take any steps neccessary to prevent a repetition. I'd suggest
> halving the "days of work" value as a first step.
The problem was caused by me testing the FactorOverride option and setting
it to an abusrdly low value (56).
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> Subject: Re: Mersenne: The recent popularity of Factoring
>
>
> Hi,
>
> At 02:35 AM 3/25/00 -0500, David Campeau wrote:
> >I was looking at the PrimeNet's World Test Status and in the
> recent couple
> >of days, the factoring assignment went fr
Hi,
At 05:33 PM 3/25/00 -0500, Nathan Russell wrote:
>After this is resolved, should all of us use the manual pages to get rid
>of our factoring assignments and get new, lower ones?
There is no need for that. Factoring is far enough ahead of the
first-time Lucas-Lehmer testers that nearly all
After this is resolved, should all of us use the manual pages to get rid of
our factoring assignments and get new, lower ones?
I know that I, for one, have two factoring assignments saved up just to
provide a bit of variety between tests
Regards,
Nathan Russell
On 25 Mar 00, at 2:35, David Campeau wrote:
> I was looking at the PrimeNet's World Test Status and in the recent couple
> of days, the factoring assignment went from ~1 to ~13000. I put my
> detective cap and went digging in the Assignment Report.
>
> Seeing who the majority of the factorin
Hi,
At 02:35 AM 3/25/00 -0500, David Campeau wrote:
>I was looking at the PrimeNet's World Test Status and in the recent couple
>of days, the factoring assignment went from ~1 to ~13000.
>
> GeoffreyF ELBuild1 680
> GeoffreyF PDuck 2422
GeoffreyF tried the FactorOverride undocume
David Campeau wrote:
>I was looking at the PrimeNet's World Test Status and in the recent couple
>of days, the factoring assignment went from ~1 to ~13000. I put my
>detective cap and went digging in the Assignment Report.
>
>Seeing who the majority of the factoring exponent were assigned t
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