Re: Mersenne: AMD XP 1600+

2001-11-20 Thread mohk
I think it is better to use the P4 setting (if you can) because you have the advantage of the SSE and the faster FPU 8) Greets, Mohk PS: It should be easy to hack the code to enable the P4 setting, just skip the CPU detection ;) At 01:54 11/21/2001, you wrote: Hi Folks, I looked but hadn't

Re: Mersenne: P-1

2001-07-28 Thread mohk
On a 1200 TBird it tooks 196 days to LL 33309379. Hope that will show you : it's all right :) Christian You caught me, it was a PrimeNet assigned 33 million exponent which is a _10_ million digit Mersenne - what's a zero between friends? :) I am in so much trouble. For the first two weeks

Re: Mersenne: scientific american

2001-07-22 Thread mohk
The reason is quiet simple: SETI is successful and GIMPS is not. Don't worry, SETI junks million of CPU years while GIMPS solve complex math. problems (8 Yes the article does go into great detail re Beowulf clusters, but the penultimate paragraph contains: An equally important trend is the

Re: Mersenne: scientific american

2001-07-22 Thread mohk
LOL ;) Are we alone? 1) no, we found something 2) dunno :) I guess searching a needle in a haystack is less complicated. At 16:10 22.07.2001, you wrote: mohk wrote: Don't worry, SETI junks million of CPU years... Unless they actually find something. Cheers... Russ

Re: Mersenne: Good news for Pentium 3 and Celeron 2 owners

2001-06-18 Thread mohk
At 03:26 18.06.2001, you wrote: Hi all, Now the bad news. The Athlon also supports these memory prefetch instructions but the one user who tried it reported no gain. Also, the new executable may also be slightly slower on the P-II and Celeron 1 as it must ignore these prefetch

Re: Mersenne: Pentium 4 owners - pre-beta prime95 release available

2001-05-13 Thread mohk
NOT DOWNLOAD THIS VERSION. It contains no new features and your results will be marked invalid if we later discover a bug in this code. Don't you say, this code enhances the Athlon as well? regards, Mohk _ Unsubscribe list

Re: Mersenne: missing exponents?

2001-05-12 Thread mohk
that by Entropia or George. Regards Achim PS: sorry that my last mail was HTML, hope that this is pure ASCII again. You should use another MailClient as Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 8) Didn't you read all the bad things about Mailwurms etc? regards, Mohk

Re: Mersenne: Getting new GIMPSers

2001-03-25 Thread mohk
Hmm ... my comp has NO idle time anymore (8 At 10:08 PM 3/11/2002, you wrote: see http://www.freechess.org/ for a way to attract GIMPS members. Freechess.org RC5 cracking team Is your computer doing all it can? Do you have idle CPU cycles laying around that aren't doing anything for you? Put

Mersenne: idea for a new prime95 version

2001-02-02 Thread mohk
) very fast (even faster than a some old pentiums). i have an tbird 800, and so i will get LLOne tests always. i could set another lame proc in the settings, but it isnt really the same. i'd be pleased to see in the next version a dialog where i can choose the test i wanna do. regards, mohk

Re: Mersenne: idea for a new prime95 version

2001-02-02 Thread mohk
Hi, again :) At 06:03 PM 02.02.01, you wrote: Hi there mohk. I've soon been with the project for 2.5 years and there has always been a choice to set if you want primenet to choose a job for you or if you want to do LL, doublechecking or factoring. v19? added the option of 10 million digit LL:s