Re: Mersenne: Prime95 on linux, a tech question

1999-06-03 Thread Kevin Jaget
you want output in a file >simply replace "/dev/null" with the filename. You might also want to look at the nohup and nice commands, depending on what exactly you are trying to do. If you've got root access (and the permission on the box's owner) you can also set mprime up t

Mersenne: Odd observation Part II

1999-05-30 Thread Kevin Jaget
th of these seem OK, try timing a few hundred iterations by hand and see what you get. > >The only thing that came to mind was ECC cache or something? -- Kevin Jaget (or an FDA approved generic equivalent) kcjaget at mindspring.com Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm

Re: Mersenne: Celerons

1999-01-06 Thread Kevin Jaget
s so they won't run (out of the box) in an MP configuration. If you have access to some decent tools, you can modify them --- http://www.cpu-central.com/dualceleron/index-dc.html. I'd really like to try this with a pair of 300As and overclock them to 450... -- Kevin Jaget (or an FDA approved generic equivalent) kcjaget at mindspring.com

Re: Mersenne: A challenge

1998-11-21 Thread Kevin Jaget
roll all the loops. This gets rid of a number of adds where C is 0, and a few more where t[i] is initially 0. Also, remember that a[j]b[i] is really a[j]a[i] --- would it be worth it to save 3 multiplications by saving a[j]a[i] and re-using them? It's too late for me to start putting register names and opcodes into the code, but hopefully this gives people a few ideas. [snip] -- Kevin Jaget (or an FDA approved generic equivalent) kcjaget at mindspring.com

Mersenne: Simultaneous LL testing and double checking?

1998-10-12 Thread Kevin Jaget
hecked numbers as possible, and this plan would clean out some of the low exponents which will take a huge amount of time if things are left as they are. The rest of me says that things will catch up eventually, no need to worry (or someone will do the lowest remaining ranges by hand, regardless of who