On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ah, but, factoring is actually moving ahead anyway in terms of
CPU years required for LL to catch up - because larger exponents
take more time to LL test. My impression is that the gap between
the head of the factoring assignment queue and the
On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is this _really_ a problem, or is it likely to become one in the
forseeable future? Trial factoring is well ahead of LL testing at
present, and seems to be still pulling further ahead, despite the
improvement in the relative efficiency of LL
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Daran wrote:
Better would be to store every name until a valid doublecheck proves the
exponant composite. The extra storage would be negligable.
I'd suggest that names not be stored for exponents that have been
unreserved, or where the name was last assigned that exponent
On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Maciej Hrynczyszyn wrote:
Hi. I'm new to GIMPS. I recently switched from SETI@Home looking for
something more solid, which probably makes me a good example for this
discussion :-) This entire thread scared me a lot, I must admit. Could
anybody told me - a complete newbie
On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Aaron Blosser wrote:
Legally perhaps not (however, they are using PrimeNet in a way that
violates the stated terms of usage), morally and ethically I do think
(and
I suspect most people would think) it is wrong. Not terribly
surprising
that you don't think it is,
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Maciej Hrynczyszyn wrote:
But if I use 'Vacation or Holiday' option at least my completion date will
be postponed?
If you uncheck the computer will be on during your absence box, it
should adjust your completion date. The bigger problem is that not having
checked the
On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Aaron Blosser wrote:
Aw heck, let's just agree to disagree and shake hands. :) I'm not
terribly upset, and as I mentioned before, I have far greater things in
life to be concerned about than GIMPS, so I didn't mean to make a big
deal of it. :)
No problem with that here.
On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Aaron Blosser wrote:
Sounds like stalking to me.
Not to me. The radio ham thing is a tenuous connection, except that the
name is right.
Just live with it I guess and if the occasional exponent gets
triple-checked, I don't anticipate losing too much sleep. Yeah, it
On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Aaron Blosser wrote:
Not sure what the crack about with your history means, but whatever.
I can't take this all too seriously because, really, it's just a hobby.
:)
Well, let me refresh your memory. PrimeNet used to set expiration dates
solely on the basis of expected
be the
time to do something about it, but who cares if it takes 9 months for
someone to finish something if it'll be a year before the milestone is
reached.
Mary Conner
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On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Steve Elias wrote:
1 - i just got my wife's toshiba laptop back from toshiba warranty
service. running prime95 for ~6 months on it caused the fan to die,
and then the laptop would overheat shutdown even without prime95
running. apparently the heat caused lots of disk
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Steve Elias wrote:
Mary, it's great that your dell laptop throttles back the cpu when it
overheats. that's smarter than my P4 desktop with Asus motherboard,
and also smarter than the toshiba 'satellite' laptop. if you
watch/compare the iteration time of prime95 that
On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Michael Vang wrote:
We have been experiencing a similar problem for about 2-3 months... It
has been talked about quite a bit in our forum...
Several members on the team have been in contact with George and Brad
about this... I don't know what the status is, but a
I have a machine that was close to finishing its first factoring
assigment. It was 94.5% complete on the last (to 65 bits) pass. I
estimate the remainder would take about 3 to 4 hours to complete. I
started up a kids program for my son, he played with it for about 15
minutes and then exited.
On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Spike Jones wrote:
Someone gave me a german beer stein. It has a lid thingy on it
with a thumb trigger that makes the lid pop open. Pray tell, what
is the purpose of that lid thingy? spike
It keeps the beer from spilling out as you wander from one beerhall to the
I have a Cyrix 6x86 200 machine that runs Linux and serves as my
firewall/gateway/router, etc. for my home network. It's presently working
on distributed.net's OGR, but the last checkin I did, the proxy indicated
that it had no more OGR work to do. I don't want to put it on RC5, and it
would
On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Paradox wrote:
Comparing these to the benchmarks on mersenne.org suggests
something is causing a loss of CPU power.
I still suspect the thermal monitor
feature because it is possible the CPU could heat so fast
that it kicks in instantly. (or possibly the TM never
On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Alexander Kruppa wrote:
So if that person who received the three assignments you mentioned does
extra trial factoring work, that might explain why he gets other peoples
exponents (and maybe doesn't even know it). Did the factoring depth of
these three exponents change
been able to find any option on Prime95's menus, or anything on
the web page about how to do this so that PrimeNet will accept the
reassignment.
Mary Conner
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On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, John R Pierce wrote:
AFAIK, take it out of your worktodo.ini file, and hand it off to teh other
user, along with any Q or P files if they exist.
when they check back into the server, it should be happy to let them
continue. I could be wrong here, but I don't think
On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Alexander Kruppa wrote:
David Slowinski contacted George, asking him wether Prime95 could test
numbers 1 million bits. He had just discovered that M1257787 was prime
- when George's own computer was only a few days from finishing that
very exponent! David also asked for
On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, George Woltman wrote:
On a purely technical note, In the event that the other person does
eventually check back in, is there a mechanism in place to either tell his
machine or mine that it should abandon the exponent
No. The server never contacts the client. That's
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