Re: Mersenne: GIMPS forums!

2002-08-18 Thread Gareth Randall
Some general questions regarding the ongoing provision of information on the aforementioned forum: 1. What happens to the archive of posts if teamprimerib.com suddenly disappears? Is it lost forever? 2. Are these messages really going to be archived anyway? Will messages expire beyond a

Re: Mersenne: GIMPS forums!

2002-08-18 Thread Michael Vang
Some general questions regarding the ongoing provision of information on the aforementioned forum: 1. What happens to the archive of posts if teamprimerib.com suddenly disappears? Is it lost forever? I doubt we are going anywhere... :) The resources for this site allow for a BBS that is

Mersenne: Benchmark Timings: XP1800+

2002-08-18 Thread Jeff Woods
What a difference RAM makes. I didn't find my specific configuration on the benchmarks page, so I am sending in this. CURRENTLY on the benchmarks page: Athlon XP1800+, 1533 Mhz, 133 DDR, L2=256-Full, 15-17M timing: 0.091 sec I have a virtually identical machine, except it is using mere 133

Mersenne: Benchmarks / Reference Machine / Calculations

2002-08-18 Thread Jeff Woods
21000 of the 31000 participating machines are P-III or better. Less than 2,000 true Pentium-class machines remain in the mix. George et. al.: Could it be time to change the baseline reference machine away from the Pentium-90, and wipe the P-90 off of all pages, from rankings to status to

Re: Mersenne: GIMPS forums!

2002-08-18 Thread Rick Pali
At 11:06 AM 2002-08-18, you wrote: 3. Also, although less significantly, does the hosting site automatically gain ownership of all the material posted? Some sites seem to think they do, although I haven't checked this one. All content is owned by GIMPS, not TPR... George calls the