RE: Mersenne: QA testers call

1999-09-23 Thread Ken Kriesel
At 09:36 AM 1999/09/23 -0700, Paul Leyland wrote: >Hi Ken, that's a challenging project you're proposing. > >I'm very nearly tempted by this one, but the 6-year run time is a bit >daunting. In the past I've devoted months to a single factorization but >I've no real idea what I'll be doing in six

Mersenne: version 19 and confusion

1999-09-23 Thread Ian L McLoughlin
Hi, I have been reading postings with interest... I have the idea that most people posting to the list are software programmers. I am a humble chemist more into 2,4-Dihydroxybenzene or antivirals..(Acyclovir??) I tried to install the version 19.0 expecting it on Win 98 to supplant my existing file

Mersenne: Mlucas 2.7: whoops #2

1999-09-23 Thread EWMAYER
Oops - I just noticed that I mistyped the IP# for my ftp server in my postings yesterday - cut and paste, the fastest way to propagate errors throughout one's document. The correct ftp is ftp://209.133.33.182/pub/mayer/README Using my own terminology, a code which is at (or said to be at) a non

Mersenne: Updated info on M(M(p))

1999-09-23 Thread Will Edgington
The list of known factors of iterated Mersenne numbers recently forwarded to these lists include all factors known to me, but the search limits have been significantly improved, some well before Nov. 1996 I believe. The MMPstats.txt file that I maintain is about to be updated to the following.

Mersenne: Conflict with Windows Schedule agent?

1999-09-23 Thread Jud McCranie
Has anyone noticed a conflict between Prime95 and Windows 98 SE scheduling agent? With Sch agent on, just about every application will sometimes lock up when I click on something. With Sch agent off, it is OK. The only thing (other than the regular system stuff) that I have running is Prime

Re: Mersenne: M(M(127)) and other M(M(p))

1999-09-23 Thread Will Edgington
Chris Nash writes: I really hope that neither Will Edgington (with M(M(6972593))) nor Chip Kerchner (with M(M(1398269))) dedicated any computer time whatsoever to search for factors 2*k*M(p)+1 up to k=4. I didn't, except perhaps to have mmtrial verify that the smaller k's were sieved o

Mersenne: Linux error 2250 (was Front-end design)

1999-09-23 Thread George Woltman
Hi Robin. At 04:18 PM 9/23/99 +0100, Robin Stevens wrote: >some of the servers on which I have mprime running don't have an X server. The original poster was talking about a GUI executable available in addition to - not a replacement for - mprime. >Incidentally, can anyone explain why under v19

Mersenne: Re: FFTW for GIMPS?

1999-09-23 Thread EWMAYER
Guillermo Ballester Valor writes: << Do you Know the GNU-FFTW package ?(The Fastest Fourier Transform in the West). Last week I thought it would be interesting to see if it is as fast as they say. It is really a fast C-written FFT code. >> Hi, Guillermo (please, let's use first names - I'm an in

Mersenne: whoops

1999-09-23 Thread EWMAYER
Please note that I mistyped Guillermo Ballester Valor's e-mail address in sending my last posting - it should be [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Ernst _ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ --

Mersenne: Mlucas 2.6/2.7: corrections

1999-09-23 Thread EWMAYER
Dear All: some corrections to my two postings of yesterday (West Coast U.S. yesterday, at least): The error summary for Mlucas 2.6c should read as follows: 1) Any first exponent at a particular FFT length should be fine; 2) Any subsequent exponent at the same length (whether there are exponents

Re: Mersenne: Front-end design

1999-09-23 Thread Chris Jefferson
Sorry, I've deleted the mail. QWhere can I get the most recent Prime95 source code from, and what should I compile it with? I'd like to at least try to make a front-end, and I'm sure at least the base of a screen saver would take all of 30 minutes. I know that we'd perfer people to use prime95 all

Re: Mersenne: Front-end design

1999-09-23 Thread Robin Stevens
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 01:53:33PM +0200, Alexander Kruppa wrote: > Robert van der Peijl wrote: > > He further writes: > > There are some Linux folks that like the present program because it > > doesn't use X-windows. > I certainly do! A program like mprime that is supposed to run in > backgro

Mersenne: Oops again - Version 19 - beta #4

1999-09-23 Thread George Woltman
Hi all, Only Linux users are affected. Apparently I suffered floppy confusion or other operator error in rebuilding beta #4 for linux. The corrected beta #4 for linux is now available. The linux beta dynamicly linked with glibc 2.1 is at: ftp://entropia.com/gimps/mprb.tgz The linux bet

Re: Mersenne: Front-end design

1999-09-23 Thread Alexander Kruppa
Robert van der Peijl wrote: > > He further writes: > There are some Linux folks that like the present program because it > doesn't use X-windows. I certainly do! A program like mprime that is supposed to run in background at all times should not depend on a X server running. Maybe the setup

Re: Decamega Tests (was: RE: Mersenne: GIMPS client output)

1999-09-23 Thread Philippe Trottier
HI! Anyone tought of send ing these P and Q once a month to the server.. in the case where someone would abandon a quest, it could be continued by someone else ... >Notice that in v19 if you set it to get 10 Million range numbers you get a warning >about it taking a year on a 500 Mhz P-2, and od

Mersenne Digest V1 #630

1999-09-23 Thread Mersenne Digest
Mersenne Digest Wednesday, September 22 1999 Volume 01 : Number 630 -- Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 21:25:02 +0200 From: "Floris Looyesteyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Mersenne: FDIV Pentium error I was wondering if Pri