Mersenne: Progress made in finding small factors in the entire GIMPS range

2002-06-10 Thread Henk Stokhorst
L.S., Weekly I make a graph of the file nofactors.cmp. It shows till what depth ranges of exponents have been factored. Currently the depth varies from 2^56 up to 2^73. The graphs are available as .gif images at http://home.planet.nl/~tha/mersenne/index.html YotN, Henk Stokhorst

Re: Mersenne: Re: Mersenne Digest V1 #967

2002-06-10 Thread Henk Stokhorst
on the Dilbert website for quite some time. It does do mission statements. Can someone generate a mission statement for Gimps using this site? http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/games/career/bin/ms.cgi YotN, Henk Stokhorst

Mersenne: Which changes have been made to the server

2002-04-02 Thread Henk Stokhorst
L.S., Does this signify some results have been judged invalid and need retesting? YotN, Henk Stokhorst. --- Mersenne Exponent Test Distribution Map --- Exponent Range Trial Factoring Lucas-Lehmer Double Checking Avail Out Factd

Mersenne: netconx

2002-03-21 Thread Henk Stokhorst
L.S., Any netconx teammember on the list that can contact me? YotN, Henk Stokhorst _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers

Re: Mersenne: A runaway P95 install script?

2002-03-21 Thread Henk Stokhorst
to be through the emailaddress in the client if even that is known to the server. YotN, Henk Stokhorst _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com

Mersenne: /. article

2002-02-26 Thread Henk Stokhorst
http://slashdot.org factoring breakthrough? YotN, Henk Stokhorst _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers

Mersenne: further code optimisation using a recompile?

2002-01-26 Thread Henk Stokhorst
already been handcoded. But it would be nice to know if a recompile with this compiler would improve throughput significantly, anyone? YotN, Henk Stokhorst _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm

Mersenne: new milestone

2002-01-08 Thread Henk Stokhorst
L.S., With all the new machines getting steam, among them Pentium IV machines with the SSE2 code the throughput of primenet is increasing sharply over the last weeks, Today it broke the 3 Tflop barrier. The virtual machine's sustained throughput* is currently 3024 billion floating

Mersenne: M4 completely factored!

2001-12-20 Thread Henk Stokhorst
L.S., Another milestone has been acomplished. M4 has been completely factored, two factors were found, 2^4 -1 = 15 = 3 * 5. more details at http://slashdot.org/ see: IBM builds a limited quatum computer. YotN, Henk Stokhorst

number of primenet machines Was: Mersenne: CNET coverage of M39: Very good

2001-12-16 Thread Henk Stokhorst
L.S., at the time of the discovery the amount of personal computers checking in results to primenet was around 20,000. I have no idea where the 210,000 number came from. YotN, Henk Stokhorst _ Unsubscribe list info

Mersenne: new stats and updated software

2001-12-09 Thread Henk Stokhorst
. The Delphi sourcecode in the zipfile can be trown away if not wanted. To use the program run the 'decomp -n lowerlimit upperlimit' utility first. The program can be found at: http://home.planet.nl/~tha/overview.zip YotN, Henk Stokhorst

Mersenne: p-1 records

2001-12-04 Thread Henk Stokhorst
Gordon Spence wrote: Currently my team report cleared list shows 338 double checks and 12 double checked factored including this monster 6630223 87 DF 195139088771490335223859559 07-Apr-01 07:58 trilog (In fact when it was checked in PrimeNet initially rejected it because it was longer

Re: Mersenne: energy consumption Prime95 on 130 computers

2001-11-22 Thread Henk Stokhorst
Tijl Kindt wrote: * Does anybody know how much more energy would be consumed by running Prime95 10 hours a day and on all workdays on 130 computers* Depends on, if the systems are on anyway, there will be no noticeable difference. If they are switched on just to run prime95, whilst they

Mersenne: # Pentium IV

2001-11-17 Thread Henk Stokhorst
L.S., Another 'eagle eyed' observation ;-) Intel Pentium 4 :560 AMD Athlon: 8510 Intel Pentium III : 9737 Intel Pentium II : 3434 Intel Celeron : 2023 Intel Pentium Pro : 1617 Intel Pentium : 2800 AMD K6

Mersenne: prime

2001-11-14 Thread Henk Stokhorst
L.S., from the status.shtml page: --- Mersenne Exponent Test State --- Assigned in Tests Cleared Since Last Synchronization Factoring only: 8683 Factored composite: 13505 Lucas-Lehmer testing : 27314

Re: Mersenne: prime

2001-11-14 Thread Henk Stokhorst
George Woltman wrote: In fact, one of the reasons I was a little suspicious of the report this morning was that I had not received the primenet email. It seems that the eagle-eyed Henk Stokhorst may have been the first to know that M#39 was uncovered. Achim Passauer, also from Europe

Re: Mersenne: some stats on primenet

2001-11-11 Thread Henk Stokhorst
. But it is an indication how much air is in the number of processors active listed on the primenet statuspage due to pc's that never finish an assigned exponent. Assume the amount of contributing processors to be in between 15.000 to 23.000 Henk Stokhorst

Mersenne: some stats on primenet

2001-11-03 Thread Henk Stokhorst
to pc's that never finish an assigned exponent. YotN, Henk Stokhorst. _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers

Mersenne: server assigned factoring only.

2001-11-01 Thread Henk Stokhorst
? YotN, Henk Stokhorst _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers

Re: Mersenne: number of processors participating

2001-10-29 Thread Henk Stokhorst
improvements so I wondered if it wouldn't be a good idea to inform users through the occasional newsletter. Particulary because it gives a 10% improvement for Pentium I, II and III users and it skips P-1 if it has been done. YotN, Henk Stokhorst. PS those abandoned assignments do't slow down the project

Mersenne: number of processors participating

2001-10-27 Thread Henk Stokhorst
with a constant daily flow. Does anyone know more about this? YotN, Henk Stokhorst _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers

Mersenne: new maillist started

2001-10-22 Thread Henk Stokhorst
done etc. It is not the place to dicuss items that should be discussed on this list. The homepage can be found at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LoneMersenneHunters Happy hunting, Henk Stokhorst. _ Unsubscribe list info

Re: Mersenne: graphical image of factoring work being done

2001-04-03 Thread Henk Stokhorst
not been updated yet. YotN, Henk Stokhorst _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers

Mersenne: graphical image of factoring work being done

2001-04-02 Thread Henk Stokhorst
' to 'nofactor_old', create a new nofactor file with the same range and then run factor_changes_overview. Mail me for any questions. YotN, Henk Stokhorst _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ

Re: Mersenne: prime95 - v21 progress

2001-03-08 Thread Henk Stokhorst
have that option. That version should only be available to people who have fast (700 MHz or more) machines running most of the day. That would help prevent exponents expiring multiple times. YotN, Henk Stokhorst

Mersenne: 39.000.000 range

2001-02-11 Thread Henk Stokhorst
L.S., If anyone is working within the range 39.000.000 - 40.000.000, please contact me to avoid double work, I plan to delve for factors over there. YotN, Henk Stokhorst _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net

Mersenne: P-1 factoring only

2000-12-23 Thread Henk Stokhorst
L.S., I would enjoy it if it would be possible to have a prime95 version with a P-1 factoring assignments only option. My pc starts to crunch (literally, really, it starts to peep intermittantly like as if it needs lubricant) if I switch to LL testing. It would save time for the people prefering

Mersenne: factoring the higher exponents

2000-12-15 Thread Henk Stokhorst
done and can be done to avoid this? YotN, Henk Stokhorst _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers

Mersenne: bug in Wordpad?

2000-10-30 Thread Henk Stokhorst
recommend for such operations ;-) YotN, Henk Stokhorst _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.exu.ilstu.edu/mersenne/faq-mers.txt

Re: Mersenne: Re: Output from nofactor.cmp

2000-10-30 Thread Henk Stokhorst
Gordon Spence wrote: When I extract items from this file using decomp.exe from George, then ALL of the lines already say Factor= How are you extracting them? with the wrong parameter, -t instead of -w ;-) YotN, Henk Stokhorst

Mersenne: experimental x86-64

2000-10-06 Thread Henk Stokhorst
L.S., Anyone already working on a 64 bits version of Prime for AMD's Hammerfamily? YotN, Henk Stokhorst http://www.x86-64.org/ _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ

Mersenne: Prime95 and Pentium III 1.13 GHz

2000-08-29 Thread Henk Stokhorst
Hi, for all of you who couldn't get their 1.13 GHz Pentiums working correctly with Prime95, there is a story on that at http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/00q3/000801/pentiumiii-01.html YotN, Henk Stokhorst _ Unsubscribe

Mersenne: weird behaviour Prime 95

2000-08-17 Thread Henk Stokhorst
? There are no energysaving programs installed other than switching of the monitor. Restarting Prime 95 gets the system monitor reporting 100% processor usage, however taking an iteration 40 times as much time as normal, quitting Prime95 then gets processor activity back to zero! YotN, Henk

Mersenne: FPU vs ALU

2000-04-24 Thread Henk Stokhorst
of the Willamette should be preferred for LL testing? YotN, Henk Stokhorst. _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers

Re: Mersenne: Re: [First 10 million digit exponent]

1999-06-08 Thread Henk Stokhorst.
L.S., And below M3600, there are 159,975 exponents (again repeating Brian) with at least 10 million digits. Fine, but are the efforts being made in that region centrally registered? YotN, Henk Stokhorst. Unsubscribe

Re: Mersenne: Screen saver killers?

1999-05-16 Thread Henk Stokhorst.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps we should wait a few weeks, then poll a selection of users as to whether they prefer to participate using a "Prime95 style" background program or a "Seti@home" style screensaver. A working Prime95 screensaver program will certainly make it a lot easier to

Re: Mersenne: preventive measures

1999-04-10 Thread Henk Stokhorst
charts, just for the fun, in case there is nothing else useful to be done. Henk Stokhorst Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm

Re: Mersenne: VME claim

1999-03-13 Thread Henk Stokhorst
: 7060034896770543742372772105511569658378384779628943811708504827156734575902 9962497646848024880749924272446637457099914453082421646959773690663827212173 6526607699022870679030143158018123175881930939339869708632591433883 YotN, Henk Stokhorst Unsubscribe list

Mersenne: VME claim

1999-03-09 Thread Henk Stokhorst
be viewed at http://home.wxs.nl/~tha/Mersenne/endorse.gif YotN, Henk Stokhorst. - Meganet P-Time Deterministic Primality Test endorsed by world renowned mathematician. In response to your email inquiring about our Polynomial Time 100% Deterministic Prime Testing, we have attached the endorsement

Re: Mersenne: Question about double checking

1998-11-04 Thread Henk Stokhorst
George responded: At 07:49 PM 11/3/98 +0100, you wrote: Does that take into account the fact that a factor found does not require time to check, whereas a LL residue needs to be computed twice? Yes and no. I don't take it into account when I compute the breakeven point, but I always

Re: Mersenne: Question about double checking

1998-11-03 Thread Henk Stokhorst
George Woltman wrote: The optimal breakeven point for factoring vs. LL testing changes every time the factoring code or LL code changes. In the old days, the breakeven point was 2^56, now its 2^57. Does that take into account the fact that a factor found does not require time to check,

Re: Mersenne: A short gdunken on Aaron B's situation

1998-09-19 Thread Henk Stokhorst
John R Pierce wrote: agreed. I discovered most of my HTTP clients at work were busy retrying ever 2 minutes and not getting any work done today. The next version (16.x or whatever) should default to 240 minutes instead of 2. As long as the server is down less than the days of work to get