Re: Mersenne: PrimeNet server unavailable?

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Mersenne: PrimeNet server unavailable?

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Re: Mersenne: servers down completely?

(209.68.192.250) 279.896 ms 258.750 ms 249.915 ms 29 ctshub8.cts.com (209.68.192.248) 259.907 ms 258.745 ms 259.924 ms 30 ctshub-f0.cts.com (209.68.192.250) 249.890 ms 258.748 ms 259.916 ms And here's my home machine for once dialled up and with results to submit... -- --- Robin Stevens

Re: Mersenne: Prime95 version 23.1 - Pentium 4 improvements

for factoring/double checks these days? -- --- Robin Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Oxford University Computing Services --- Web: http://www.cynic.org.uk/ --- (+44)(0)1865: 273212 (work) 273275 (fax) Mobile: 07776 235326

Re: Mersenne: electrical energy needed to run a LL-Test?

this to show that replacing CRTs with LCDs purely to lower power bills wasn't yet economic. (And 1024x768 resolution isn't enough for me anyway :-) -- --- Robin Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Oxford University Computing Services --- Web: http://www.cynic.org.uk

Re: Mersenne: Work being wasted

to PrimeNet will then cause unstarted assignments which are no longer neccessary to be automatically removed. Of course if one _keeps_ doing this, then the smallest exponents never get processed (and perhaps they become more likely to be poached) :-) -- --- Robin Stevens [EMAIL

Re: Mersenne: variable iteration speeds

On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 06:11:49PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 15 Jan 2002, at 22:00, Robin Stevens wrote: On an otherwise idle Linux system, I've been noticing that the per-iteration speed has been varying during the course of a single primality test. Until Saturday afternoon I'd

Mersenne: variable iteration speeds

. [Jan 15 00:53] Iteration: 600 / 13355561 Per iteration time: 0.194 sec. [Jan 15 03:35] Iteration: 605 / 13355561 Per iteration time: 0.194 sec. [Jan 15 06:16] Iteration: 610 / 13355561 Per iteration time: 0.194 sec. -- --- Robin Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Mersenne: Preventing new assignments

as major servers, and have had to transfer unfinished work elsewhere :-) -- --- Robin Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Oxford University Computing Services --- Web: http://www.cynic.org.uk/ --- (+44)(0)1865: 273212 (work) 273275 (fax) Mobile: 07776 235326

Re: Mersenne: new milestone

On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 09:47:36AM +0100, Henk Stokhorst wrote: [-- text/html is unsupported (use 'v' to view this part) --] Hmmm. Any chance of keeping this list text-only, please? :-) -- --- Robin Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Oxford University Computing Services

Re: Mersenne: Re: Munich prime party report

to celebrate each new prime (assuming we don't run into a huge gap By Sod's Law, you'd call a party during a long gap and the next prime would then turn up. Unfortunately, similar laws would prevent one from using this effect to speed up the search, which is a pity :-) -- --- Robin

Re: Mersenne: glitches in mprime v19?

report results. My temporary solution has been to grab 90 days' of work, switch the machines to run as dialup hosts even if they aren't, and wait for someone else to fix it, reporting via the web interface if necessary :-) -- Robin Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www-astro.physics.ox.ac.uk/~r

Re: Mersenne: Linux error 2250 (was Front-end design)

' CPU time to its credit (-: ). One point - there seem to be inconsistencies in the case of some of the source file names, which required either manual changing or use of a FAT partition in order to get mprime to compile :-) -- -------- Robin Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: Mersenne: Front-end design

being down. The FAQ mentions a problem on v18 for those using RPC, but I was under the impression I've always been using http... -- -------- Robin Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Merton College, Oxford OX1 4JD, UK http://www-astro.physics.ox.ac.uk/~rejs/ (+44) (0)1865: 72

Re: Mersenne: cacheable memory

;-) -- Robin Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Merton College, Oxford OX1 4JD, UK http://www-astro.physics.ox.ac.uk/~rejs/ (+44) (0)1865: 726796 (home) 273337 (work) 273390 (fax)Pager: 0839 629682 "He's dead Jim." "I know, Bones. I've

Mersenne: Performance hit on Pentiums with 64MB?

to cache more than 64MB of RAM. How much of a performance hit am I likely to encounter in running Primenet? I've seen figures of 10-30% quoted for various applications. Not that I'm overly bothered - I have a PII contributing rather more these days :-) -- Robin Stevens