Re: Mersenne: PrimeNet productivity
Sander Hoogendoorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This page also shows that the number of inactive accounts is raising > harder then the active accounts. I'm not totally surprised at this. So long as the number of active accounts keeps rising, we aren't in trouble. Especially as the average power of computers keeps rising. Probably most of the "drop outs" are people who have a single PC which is now getting older & so less able to cope with the longer assignments which are now the order of the day. > Since the last newsletter was from may > 22 (or did i miss one?) it might be a good idea for a new one to wake > all these people because not all people who are testing are members of > this mailing list Are you volunteering to write one? Good point, actually. If a significant number of users have dropped out because assignments now take so much longer, perhaps they should be made aware of the relatively new "double checking" project. My guess is that the accounts which have recently become "inactive" are the people who were giving up just before V17 became available. Could I suggest that we mail (just once) all the inactive accounts with an announcement of V17, and the consequent release of relatively small exponents for double-checking. PrimeNet should have the e-mail addresses of these people. If we could attract 10% of these people back into the project, it would be worthwhile. Regards Brian Beesley
Re: Mersenne: PrimeNet productivity
Greetings, This appears to be a glitch in the program. The "CPU years" cannot be greater than the "CPU yr/day". I have noticed from time to time in recent weeks that the counter for "CPU years" does not roll back to zero at 06h every day, which I think it is supposed to do, thereby allowing it to accumulate more than 24 hours worth of work. The "CPU yr/day" formula seems to take this into account, however. I have been in the search for more than two years now, way before Primenet came along. I'm sure everyone that has been on this ride for long enough to remember being able to LL-test exponents below 2,000,000 for the first time will agree that 35 to 40 years of work in a single day was never expected, only dreamed about. Whoda thought we be testing in the 6,000,000 range by now?!? How about some predictions on when the whole range up to 20,500,000 will be: 1) completely factored to the available limit of the program? 2) completely first time LL-tested? 3) completely double-checked? With the GIMPS status page showing about 535 millennium of P90 work to go, considering present production, factors yet to be found and more and faster computers coming online to help, I predict that all of the above will be accomplished in under 10 years. Any comments? Regards, Gary Untermeyer Jean-Charles Meyrignac wrote: > Today, Primenet status page contains: > > Last 7 Days Average Cumulative Today > from 99-Jan-27 06h from 99-Feb-02 06h > > Test Type CPU yr/dayGFLOP/sCPU yearsCPU yr/day > -- -- ---- > Lucas-Lehmer 36.852 443.609 48.46936.392 > Factoring 1.442 17.358 1.845 1.386 >-- -- ---- > TOTALS 38.294 460.966 50.31437.777 > > 50.314 years/day !!! > > It seems that a massive number of new members have sent results.
Re: Mersenne: PrimeNet productivity
This page also shows that the number of inactive accounts is raising harder then the active accounts. Since the last newsletter was from may 22 (or did i miss one?) it might be a good idea for a new one to wake all these people because not all people who are testing are members of this mailing list >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Feb 3 08:57:20 1999 >Received: (from majordomo@localhost) > by acid.base.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA28596 > for mersenne-outgoing; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 07:43:01 -0800 >Received: from bouvreuil.cybercable.fr (bouvreuil.cybercable.fr [212.198.3.12]) > by acid.base.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA28589 > for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 07:42:58 -0800 >Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Received: (qmail 3772 invoked from network); 3 Feb 1999 14:11:42 - >Received: from d130.paris-35.cybercable.fr (HELO jc) (212.198.35.130) > by bouvreuil.cybercable.fr with SMTP; 3 Feb 1999 14:11:42 - >From: "Jean-Charles Meyrignac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Mersenne Base" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Mersenne: PrimeNet productivity >Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 15:12:42 +0100 >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-Priority: 3 >X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Precedence: bulk > >Today, Primenet status page contains: > > Last 7 Days Average Cumulative Today > from 99-Jan-27 06h from 99-Feb-02 06h > > Test Type CPU yr/dayGFLOP/sCPU yearsCPU yr/day > -- -- ---- > Lucas-Lehmer 36.852 443.609 48.46936.392 > Factoring 1.442 17.358 1.845 1.386 > -- -- ---- > TOTALS 38.294 460.966 50.31437.777 > >50.314 years/day !!! > >It seems that a massive number of new members have sent results. > > __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Mersenne: PrimeNet productivity
Today, Primenet status page contains: Last 7 Days Average Cumulative Today from 99-Jan-27 06h from 99-Feb-02 06h Test Type CPU yr/dayGFLOP/sCPU yearsCPU yr/day -- -- ---- Lucas-Lehmer 36.852 443.609 48.46936.392 Factoring 1.442 17.358 1.845 1.386 -- -- ---- TOTALS 38.294 460.966 50.31437.777 50.314 years/day !!! It seems that a massive number of new members have sent results.
