Mersenne: A request for Scott
I would like to make a request for Scott. Would it be possible to add a CPU Type column to the Individual Account Report? Since v21.4 it seems even more important that each and every machine has the correct CPU type selected. Since a lot of members that have been around a while (myself included) have probably upgraded many of the machines participating, this would allow a quick check to ensure that each machine is in fact running the optimum code. Thanks, Alan A programmer is a person who turns coffee into software. Alan R. Vidmar Assistant Director of IT Office of Financial AidUniversity of Colorado [EMAIL PROTECTED](303)492-3598 *** This message printed with 100% recycled electrons *** _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
Re: Mersenne: number of processors participating
Hi all, One thing to remember ppl, A LOT of system testers tend to use Prime95 to test overclocking/cooling. I'm sure that *many* abandoned assignments are due to this fact. Due to this usage (which I don't mind BTW, maybe a few will stay on and contribute, I did) I suggest that there be a switch added so that ppl can use Prime95 as a processor test but without ever getting real assignments, thus slowing down the project. Just my two cents. Alan On 27 Oct 2001, at 18:54, Henk Stokhorst wrote: Date sent: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 18:54:24 +0100 From: Henk Stokhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Mersenne: number of processors participating L.S., I read a message some time ago on this list that claimed that the number of processors had gone down by about 9000. I don't have stats on this other than the actual available from the status pages. Does anyone have stats over the last year, like numer of pc's and/or processor types, processor speeds? If there would really have been a decrease in participating processors, (I don't think so) an updated graph of Primenet throughput would show by now, is there any update in the pipeline? I went through the status.txt file to see if the new 'stress test' button could have played a significant role, I don't think so. By the way if one runs prime95 without a user name the application fills in an S0 as user name. I found 3170 entries with a name '.' (only a dot) The fast majority of these entries seem to be have been abandoned. They 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 A programmer is a person who turns coffee into software. Alan R. Vidmar Assistant Director of IT Office of Financial AidUniversity of Colorado [EMAIL PROTECTED](303)492-3598 *** This message printed with 100% recycled electrons *** _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
Mersenne: Georgia Sues RC5 User For $415,000
Georgia Sues RC5 User For $415,000 http://slashdot.org/yro/01/07/08/2153206.shtml A programmer is a person who turns coffee into software. Alan R. Vidmar Assistant Director of IT Office of Financial AidUniversity of Colorado [EMAIL PROTECTED](303)492-3598 *** This message printed with 100% recycled electrons *** _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
Mersenne: Technological Singularity
This is an article written back in 1993. Very interesting indeed. http://www.alumni.engin.umich.edu/~jxm/singlar.html A programmer is a person who turns coffee into software. Alan R. Vidmar Assistant Director of IT Office of Financial AidUniversity of Colorado [EMAIL PROTECTED](303)492-3598 *** This message printed with 100% recycled electrons *** _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
Mersenne: Exponent already completed?
One of my machines just dropped off my assigned machine list. Also that machine is saying "ERROR 11" Exponent already completed. How did this happen? This machine has been working on this exponent for two weeks. The exponent is 10544533. I checked the competed exponent list and the user "LAKE_COMMS" claims to have completed it on Oct 5th. Should I let my machine finish the exponent, or get a new one? Ideas? Thanks, Alan "A programmer is a person who turns coffee into software." Alan R. Vidmar Assistant Director of IT Office of Financial AidUniversity of Colorado [EMAIL PROTECTED](303)492-3598 http://radio.sonicnet.com/mymusiclisten.asp?name=vidmar *** This message printed with 100% recycled electrons *** _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.exu.ilstu.edu/mersenne/faq-mers.txt
Mersenne: NTprime service and Dr. Watson this morning
I am having a number of machines DR. Watson on NTPrime service this morning. And it seems that the web site is down as well. Anyone know what is happpening? Alan "A programmer is a person who turns coffee into software." Alan R. Vidmar Assistant Director of IT Office of Financial AidUniversity of Colorado [EMAIL PROTECTED](303)492-3598 *** This message printed with 100% recycled electrons *** _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.exu.ilstu.edu/mersenne/faq-mers.txt
Re: Mersenne: Facelift (round 3)
Based upon what I have seen so far, I want to add a vote for the addition of a side frame. Since the Header/Menu contains so many links, its really the only nice way of handling it. All in favor of a side frame please speak up. Alan On 19 Apr 2000, at 21:00, George Woltman wrote: Date sent: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 21:00:57 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: George Woltman [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Mersenne: Facelift (round 3) Hi again, I looked at the MS site with its dropdown menus. It was far more javascript than I want to wade through. So I've come up with a simpler header that incorporates a menu. Let me know if you like this (especially as compared to the more traditional menu on the side). It does get us more horizontal real-estate to display the status and benchmark tables. The latest incarnation (with non-operational menus) can be viewed at: ,,FF00>href="http://www.mersenne.org/newhtml2/prime.htm" eudora="autourl"htm as opposed to the p ersenne.org/newhtml/prime.htm" eudora=ersenne.org/newhtml/prime.htm" eudora="autourl"htm More comments are Thanks again, George "A programmer is a person who turns coffee into software." Alan R. Vidmar Assistant Director of IT Office of Financial AidUniversity of Colorado [EMAIL PROTECTED](303)492-3598 *** This message printed with 100% recycled electrons *** _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
Re: Mersenne: Facelift (round 2)
George, I think you are on the right track. Take a look at this web site for an example of what can be done without frames but still have a nice looking side menu on all pages. Tables, Tables, Tables. http://www.counter-strike.net PS: Ingore the content. Alan On 18 Apr 2000, at 10:55, George Woltman wrote: Date sent: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 10:55:34 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: George Woltman [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Mersenne: Facelift (round 2) Hi again, Summarizing the feedback from the first round: 5 votes for liking the new look, 2 votes against. 2 votes for frames, 7 votes against. 4 votes for too slow. Here's what's new this round. 1) I dumped the mouse rollover and replaced the 44 different menu gifs with one navbar gif. This should help our European friends suffering from slow load times due to downloading separate gif files. 2) The text now wraps around the navbar. Some found the white space below the navbar ugly. I'm not convinced this is any better. 3) The status table should display OK in netscape. 4) The MSIE improperly terminated string bug is not fixed. I actually think its a bug in MSIE. 5) I added alt tags to all IMG> entries. 6) The icons at the bottom of prime.htm are in a neat little row - thanks to someone that suggested putting them in a table. Here are the big open issues. I've not decided how to resolve them. 1) I really wanted the menu to stay fixed in a frame (I like being able to navigate anywhere in the site with one click and no scrolling), but sentiment against frames is quite strong. Also the current navbar doesn't fit in all screens (its 623 pixels high). I could offer a frames, non-frames, and text-only versions without too much trouble. 2) The status and benchmark pages - the most difficult to convert to the new style - now have trouble fitting in the browser window. I can try smaller fonts or add enough text above the tables so that they appear below the navbar. 3) A redesigned banner at the top of every page. Many others have remarked how they too are poor graphic artists! 4) And, of course, organizing the content! Along with displaying it in pleasing fonts and colors on a compatible background. The latest incarnations can be viewed at: ersenne.org/newhtml/prime.htm" eudora=ersenne.org/newhtml/prime.htm" eudora="autourl"htm ,,FF00>href="http://www.mersenne.org/newhtml/status.htm" eudora="autourl"htm ,,FF0r>href="http://www.mersenne.org/newhtml/bench.htm" eudora="autourl"htm More comments are Thanks again, George "A programmer is a person who turns coffee into software." Alan R. Vidmar Assistant Director of IT Office of Financial AidUniversity of Colorado [EMAIL PROTECTED](303)492-3598 *** This message printed with 100% recycled electrons *** _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
Mersenne: Request for feature
Scott, Would it be possible to add a CPU type/speed column to the "Exponents Assigned" list of the "Individual Account Report"? This info seems to be collected as the "Machines Assigned to PrimeNet" suggests. Thanks, Alan "A programmer is a person who turns coffee into software." Alan R. Vidmar Assistant Director of IT Office of Financial AidUniversity of Colorado [EMAIL PROTECTED](303)492-3598 *** This message printed with 100% recycled electrons *** _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
Re: Mersenne: Prime95 causes screen jitters
Hi Russel, Assuming its not AGP, see if moving the graphics card to a different slot further away from the CPU helps. Also, try moving the monitor away from the CPU. Does it get better? If possible try a different monitor cable with better shielding. Hope this helps, Alan On 6 Feb 00, at 18:57, Russel Brooks wrote: Date sent: Sun, 6 Feb 2000 18:57:10 -0800 From: Russel Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Mersenne: Prime95 causes screen jitters I've got my friend's 450MHz PII Aptiva with 256Meg ram running Prime95 under Win98. I'm seeing minor interference on the display when Prime is running. If I stop Prime the interference stops. Not much else is running 99% of the time so it's an ideal GIMPS machine but I'm bothered by the affect it has on the display. I've tried all kinds of different resolutions and sync rates but the ONLY thing that seems to affect it is whether or not Prime95 is running. Any ideas? ...suggestions? Cheers... Russ _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers "A programmer is a person who turns coffee into software." Alan R. Vidmar Assistant Director of IT Office of Financial AidUniversity of Colorado [EMAIL PROTECTED](303)492-3598 *** This message printed with 100% recycled electrons *** _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
RE: Mersenne: high factoring bug in prime95
Gee I wish I could have all of the time back that I spent on "bad" Microsoft software too. ; Alan From: Paul Leyland [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'Eric Hahn'" [EMAIL PROTECTED], George Woltman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copies to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: Mersenne: high factoring bug in prime95 Date sent: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 10:33:03 -0800 Aargh!! I've spent *weeks* trial factoring some of those, time which could have been better spent in ECMNET. Unhappy. Ah well, it's going to have to wait. I've got other things to do. In the meantime, I'll just stop the programs. Paul -Original Message- From: Eric Hahn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 December 1999 17:52 To: George Woltman Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mersenne: high factoring bug in prime95 George Woltman wrote: This is primarily directed at the 4 or 5 users dedicated to factoring exponents above 35 million. Prime95 version 19.1 has a bug that causes it to miss some factors for these large exponents. If you are one of the 4 or 5 affected users, please download version 19.2 to fix the problem. One ugly fact about this too... exponents already tested above 35.79M may need to be re-tested! Within 10 seconds of starting v19.2, two new small factors were found for exponents already tested and found to have factors (just not that small)... Six new smaller factors were found testing just 24 exponents previously tested that had factors. And for exponents that have had no factors found yet, there might be a smaller one that wasn't discovered :( Eric Hahn _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers "A programmer is a person who turns coffee into software." Alan R. Vidmar Assistant Director of IT Office of Financial AidUniversity of Colorado [EMAIL PROTECTED](303)492-3598 *** This message printed with 100% recycled electrons *** _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
Mersenne: Prime NT service v19 and CPU type/speed
I have successfully upgraded all of my clients to v19. The majority of them are running the NT service. Thanks George, et all. I noticed that we now have more options with the CPU type and speed. Will the selection cause a different algorithm to be used? More registers etc? Also, when I have updated the CPU type from PPro to PII and PIII, a "prime.spl" file is created and the information is sent back to the server. On the regular NT clients this results in the CPU counts to be updated on the server in the Individual Account Report. But none of the NT service clients updated this CPU information. They are still showing as being PPro. I can tell that these clients did in fact complete the update as the prime server shows a current date in the "date updated" field, but again the CPU count has not updated. Any ideas? Alan "A programmer is a person who turns coffee into software." Alan R. Vidmar Assistant Director of IT Office of Financial AidUniversity of Colorado [EMAIL PROTECTED](303)492-3598 *** This message printed with 100% recycled electrons *** _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
Mersenne: Friday, November 5 1999 is the Burn All GIFs Day
Liberate your website from the GIF patent! Friday, November 5 1999 is the Burn All GIFs Day. Please vist http://burnallgifs.org for more information. Alan "A programmer is a person who turns coffee into software." Alan R. Vidmar Assistant Director of IT Office of Financial AidUniversity of Colorado [EMAIL PROTECTED](303)492-3598 *** This message printed with 100% recycled electrons *** _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
