Mersenne: v21 athlon becomes P2 bug

2001-06-21 Thread George Woltman
Hi all, I think I've fixed the bug where Athlons are transformed into lowly Pentium II's when prime95 is started. This wasn't a serious bug - it really only affects the expected completion date and the cpu type reported by the primenet server. You can download the fix at ftp://

Re: Mersenne: Good news for Pentium 3 and Celeron 2 owners

2001-06-21 Thread EWMAYER
George wrote: << For those Athlon owners that are not seeing a speed boost, try setting CpuSupportsPrefetch=1 >> I also needed to do this on my C700 under WinMe to get the expected speed boost. Timings dropped from 0.260 sec at 640K to 0.188 sec. Nice work! Alas, my dual-p3 office wo

Mersenne: FTP site - Service interruption

2001-06-21 Thread Brian J. Beesley
Hi, I operate the ftp server lettuce.edsc.ulst.ac.uk which keeps copies of the Mersenne software and databases. It will be offline from approximately 12:00 GMT on Saturday 23rd June until 20:00 GMT on Sunday 24th June. The building in which it is housed requires urgent work to the main electr

RE: Mersenne: More v21

2001-06-21 Thread C. Daniel Sheets
I have noticed a bug in the new v21.1 program regarding Athlon computers. The CPU type gets changed from Athlon to Pentium II. This happens in both Prime95 v21.1 and NTPrime v21.1. Worse yet, it happens every time the program/service is started. I realize that this changes the projected end dat