Re: Mersenne: More than 10000 athlons!.

2001-03-05 Thread Brian J. Beesley
On 5 Mar 2001, at 18:42, Guillermo Ballester Valor wrote: > Last weekend the number of AMD-athlons registered in Primenet has > reached 1. In few weeks they will be the most popular among GIMPSers > if the actual trend continues. Not surprising, since (a) 1.2 GHz Athlons seem to be reasonabl

Mersenne: More than 10000 athlons!.

2001-03-05 Thread Guillermo Ballester Valor
Hi all: Last weekend the number of AMD-athlons registered in Primenet has reached 1. In few weeks they will be the most popular among GIMPSers if the actual trend continues. George, it is possible an optimization for Athlons?. I mean if it is worthwhile, as far as I know (I'm possibily wrong

Re: Mersenne: Factoring on elderly machines.

2001-03-05 Thread Michael F. Yoder
On the subject of people with older machines despairing: on a Sun workstation my primitive-trinomial program takes about 10 hours (but depending on how many other engineers are using the machine) to test a q value for Richard Brent's distributed computing project. (It is to find primitive trinomi