SV: Mersenne: Re: Mersenne Digest V1 #895

2001-10-29 Thread Magnus Adielsson
Hello, I'm fairly nuew to this group and this is actually my first message here. :-) Can I use wintop on Windows 98 or windows Me? The download page says that NOTE: This download is not intended for use on computers running MicrosoftR WindowsR 98 or is there another version of wintop for

Mersenne: Statistics

2001-10-29 Thread Achim . Passauer
Hi all, I mentioned that we lost about 9000 machines during the past 7 months. One year ago I started collecting data about numbers of machines, accounts and so on. Please find this information at the bottom of may mail. GIMPS has now as many contributing machines as it had 13 months ago. In the

Re: Mersenne: number of processors participating

2001-10-29 Thread Alan Vidmar
Hi all, One thing to remember ppl, A LOT of system testers tend to use Prime95 to test overclocking/cooling. I'm sure that *many* abandoned assignments are due to this fact. Due to this usage (which I don't mind BTW, maybe a few will stay on and contribute, I did) I suggest that there be a

Re: Mersenne: number of processors participating

2001-10-29 Thread Nathan Russell
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 09:35:40 -0700, Alan Vidmar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, One thing to remember ppl, A LOT of system testers tend to use Prime95 to test overclocking/cooling. I'm sure that *many* abandoned assignments are due to this fact. Due to this usage (which I don't mind BTW,

Re: Mersenne: number of processors participating

2001-10-29 Thread Henk Stokhorst
Alan Vidmar wrote: I suggest that there be a switch added so that ppl can use Prime95 as a processor test but without ever getting real assignments,... This is a VERY good suggestion. However it has already been implemented in the latest version (v21). That version contains more

SV: Mersenne: number of processors participating

2001-10-29 Thread Torben Schlntz
I admit I'm not that good in telling primenet what computers I have and what throughput rate to expect. eg.: I made 14 accounts all using the same 150 Mhz machine, though I knew none or only few would be 150 Mhz. These accounts all run occassionally, eg. in company holiday around the clock,

Re: Mersenne: Statistics

2001-10-29 Thread Russel Brooks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mentioned that we lost about 9000 machines during the past 7 months. One year ago I started collecting data about numbers of machines, accounts and so on. Please find this information at the bottom of may mail. GIMPS has now as many contributing machines as it had

SV: SV: Mersenne: number of processors participating

2001-10-29 Thread Torben Schlntz
Yep! But the time entry only allows the program to sleep (still eating all CPU cycles even when running at zero priority). Take any NT 4.0 or W2K machine and you will see the system idle time doesn't add seconds while Prime95 still eats them (and doing nothing). For my servers to become

Re: Mersenne: number of processors participating

2001-10-29 Thread bjb
On 28 Oct 2001, at 0:28, Terry S. Arnold wrote: Another consideration is that many system/network administrators have gotten ludicrous about what they will allow on their networks. They think that Prime95 just might let in a virus or even worse spill company secrets. By and large they are

Re: Mersenne: number of processors participating

2001-10-29 Thread bjb
On 29 Oct 2001, at 19:30, Henk Stokhorst wrote: [... snip ...] However it has already been implemented in the latest version (v21). That version contains more improvements so I wondered if it wouldn't be a good idea to inform users through the occasional newsletter. Particulary because it

Re: SV: Mersenne: number of processors participating

2001-10-29 Thread John R Pierce
Still the only time I've ever seen Prime95/NTPrime slow down a system is when I was doing some Netmeeting video conferences. With it running, the video conference would run DOG slow. Stop the NTPrime service and curiously had to restart the video conference for the effect, but the video would

Re: SV: Mersenne: number of processors participating

2001-10-29 Thread Nathan Russell
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 17:05:02 -0800, Aaron Blosser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Still the only time I've ever seen Prime95/NTPrime slow down a system is when I was doing some Netmeeting video conferences. With it running, the video conference would run DOG slow. Stop the NTPrime service and