Mersenne: New beta mers release: new Lucas-Lehmer program

1999-10-04 Thread Will Edgington
I have ftp'd a new beta release of the mers package to: http://www.garlic.com/~wedgingt/beta.tgz beta.tar.gz beta.zip beta.shar I'm announcing it to the mailing list because it includes a brand new L

Re: Mersenne: Why test to (completion?)

1999-10-04 Thread Steinar H . Gunderson
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 04:17:05AM +0100, Ian L McLoughlin wrote: >Why do primality tests run to the full value of the integerFor any >iteration surely if an exponent is found within the test it should be >reported and the program aborted?.Not being a maths buff... Perhaps you're referrin

Re: Mersenne: New beta mers release: new Lucas-Lehmer program

1999-10-04 Thread Simon Burge
Will Edgington wrote: > (The 49% CPU usage is because my computer was also doing a long term > ecm3 run, including during the FFTW tuning.) Unless you're doing a timed run, maybe "kill -STOP pid" and "kill -START pid" on the ecm3 run might give more accurate results - I hate to think of what's h

Re: Mersenne: New beta mers release: new Lucas-Lehmer program

1999-10-04 Thread Simon Burge
Simon Burge wrote: > I'll let you know of some results soon. My early tests on a 200MHz UltraSparc are not that encouraging. ./MacLucasUNIX -C -S 10 141 speed: 10 iters in 1.668 seconds, 0.167 iters/sec (fft len 128k) speed: 10 iters in 1.688 seconds, 0.169 iters/sec

Mersenne: What is Windows doing?

1999-10-04 Thread Matthew Smith
When I leave my computer alone and let Prime95 run, it will repeat the same second per iteration amount (.209 for M741) for the most part. However, for about 2000 to 3000 iterations, it will increase. Sometimes it only goes to .214 or .256, but I've seen it as high as .544. What's going on?

Re: Mersenne: What is Windows doing?

1999-10-04 Thread Lars Lindley
> for the most part. However, for about 2000 to 3000 iterations, > it will increase. Sometimes it only goes to .214 or .256, but > I've seen it as high as .544. What's going on? It must be It might be some scheduled service working. How often is it happening or was it a one-time observation?

Re: Mersenne: New beta mers release: new Lucas-Lehmer program

1999-10-04 Thread Guillermo Ballester Valor
Hi again: Simon Burge wrote: > > Simon Burge wrote: > > > I'll let you know of some results soon. > > My early tests on a 200MHz UltraSparc are not that encouraging. I'm not surprised. The performance of FFTW seems is no so good in other machines than x86, as E. Mayer commented in a recent m

Re: Mersenne: New beta mers release: new Lucas-Lehmer program

1999-10-04 Thread Simon Burge
Hi! Guillermo Ballester Valor wrote: > Have you used runtime wisdom or fftwtune wisdom?. A bad tune can affect > very much the > results. Only runtime wisdom - Will didn't put tunefftw.c in the distribution. If you or Will can send me a copy I'll try the tests again. > Has your system two proc

Re: Mersenne: New beta mers release: new Lucas-Lehmer program

1999-10-04 Thread Guillermo Ballester Valor
Hi: Simon Burge wrote: > > Will Edgington wrote: > > > (The 49% CPU usage is because my computer was also doing a long term > > ecm3 run, including during the FFTW tuning.) > I recommend to use tunefftw when the system is bored, i. e. when no other idle programs like mprime or ecm3 are runnig,

Re: Mersenne: What is Windows doing?

1999-10-04 Thread Brian J. Beesley
On 4 Oct 99, at 14:38, Lars Lindley wrote: > > for the most part. However, for about 2000 to 3000 iterations, > > it will increase. Sometimes it only goes to .214 or .256, but > > I've seen it as high as .544. What's going on? It must be > > It might be some scheduled service working. > How

RE: Mersenne: What is Windows doing?

1999-10-04 Thread Willmore, David
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Re: Mersenne: New beta mers release: new Lucas-Lehmer program

1999-10-04 Thread Will Edgington
Simon Burge writes: Only runtime wisdom - Will didn't put tunefftw.c in the distribution. If you or Will can send me a copy I'll try the tests again. OK, I've ftp'd a new beta release that includes tunefftw.c and runs it before doing the test of MacLucasFFTW. I've kept a not-very-clos