Yeah, I noticed that one of their "top 100" users has an average work unit time
of less than 30 minutes. Compare that to the ~22 hours I'm getting for a PII
450Mhz, and the SGI team's average of over 6 hours even though they're running
on just about the most powerful (and sadly, most expensive a
Let's not be _too_ eager to emulate SETI@home's popularity
and user-friendliness --
http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/security/story/0,224985,20269509,00
.htm
"Cheats wreak havoc on SETI@home: participants"
"SETI@home administrators are allegedly ignoring claims that the
project is being sabo
> We could set a contest, where people should give answers in the spirit
> of this answer by Spike, to the question: "What is the use of large
> primes?"
My entry:
To piss off phone companies.
:-D Do I win?
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Daidalos wrote:
Great! great!!
We could set a contest, where people should give answers in the spirit
of this answer by Spike, to the question: "What is the use of large
primes?"
Are we allowed more than one entry? spike
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At 05:22 PM 10/23/02 -0400, C. Garrison wrote:
> I look at GIMPS' finding of large primes as an avenue of advancing the
> concept of a Unified Theory for Mathematics - much like that which you
> hear about in Physics.
Should everything that one does in life have to have a noble higher purpose?
Great! great!!
We could set a contest, where people should give answers in the spirit
of this answer by Spike, to the question: "What is the use of large
primes?"
Best answers will win the 'Prize of the Great Expert Primus', or
something, etc.
I am usually quoting with care, but this time I'll c
Has anyone looked into getting GIMPS into a major
Linux distribution?
Maybe the program call be relegated into a hardware
benchmark/burn-in category.
mainstream
users can watch pretty colors.
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Brian J.
Beesley
To: Aaron Blosser
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On Tuesday 22 October 2002 16:31, you wrote:
And we tend
In a message dated 10/23/2002 3:05:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
'Volunteer' goes without saying. Certainly we need a marketing effort.
Does anyone have any ideas?
What about a campaign directed at schools?
Alex
e problem, the larger problem becomes easier. That's the way I
think of GIMPS.
aka DigitalConcepts
www.teamprimerib.com
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On 23 Oct 2002 at 19:42, Daran wrote:
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> From: "E. Weddington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 4:09 PM
> Subject: Mersenne: Dissed again
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> > Folding@Home's succes
On Tuesday 22 October 2002 16:31, you wrote:
> Yeah, well, we don't have a super cool Trojan horse program that can
> update itself (and crash machines) like these other ones, and we're not
> out there looking for ET or saving cancer boy or anything... just a
> bunch of geeks looking for big number
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Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 4:09 PM
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> Folding@Home's success:
> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/10/021022070813.htm
>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 8:19 PM
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> On 22 Oct 2002 at 14:40, Jeff Woods wrote:
> > Either they were really great activists
Well...
spike66 wrote:
Del S. Brand wrote:
I always get asked what is the purpose or use for such large prime
numbers. Since I'm not a math geek, I don't know what to tell them.
Any ideas?
D.Brand
Del S. Brand wrote:
I always get asked what is the purpose or use for such large prime
At 11:35 AM 10/23/02 -0400, you wrote:
Crunching for distributed computing projects can be thrilling. Watching
the number of work units you put out per day can make you excited about
your throughput. The work pours in quickly and the results leave even faster.
I want a computer JUST LIKE THAT.
Here is something I intend to put up on the web shortly to address the
problem of "why gimps?" Please feel free to use, plagerize, or rewrite this
in the hopes that it brings in at least one new member to the project.
Why donate your computer cycles to GIMPS?
I could give you technical reasons
Del S. Brand wrote:
I always get asked what is the purpose or use for such large prime
numbers. Since I'm not a math geek, I don't know what to tell them.
Any ideas?
D.Brand
Del S. Brand wrote:
I always get asked what is the purpose or use for such large prime
numbers. Since I'm not a ma
> The reason that this answe ris somewhat of a lie is that the
> prime numbers
> used in cryptography are usually NOT the "largest prime
> numbers in the
> world" at the time, nor too close to it. (It'd be easy to
> crack such keys
> if they were limited to the 1000 largest primes -- then
At 12:14 AM 10/23/02 -0700, you wrote:
I always get asked what is the purpose or use for such large prime
numbers. Since I'm not a math geek, I don't know what to tell them.
The stock answer is usually somewhat of a lie.
Huge prime numbers are useful in cryptography and and encryption, and hel
hi,
Tuesday, October 22, 2002, 8:40:08 PM, "Jeff Woods" wrote:
> Either they were really great activists in signing people up, or GIMPS has
> SOMETHING about it that won't get people to participate. We either need
> to step up our profile, be more active at recruiting, or do SOMETHING to
> ge
I always get asked what is the purpose or use
for such large prime numbers. Since I'm not a math geek, I don't know what to
tell them.
Any ideas?
D.Brand
Sorry, guys, but the problem is well known and well discussed here and
it is this: looking for extra-terrestrial life is "sexy"
searching for cures to diseases is "sexy"
looking for enormous primes is "geeky"
These are not my views, but the ones held by the public at large. So I
fear that GIMPS wi
Well, you're going to love this [links below]. The Google Toolbar has a new
icon today stating that it had updated itself. Reading further shows that one
of the updates is the ability for Google Toolbar users to automatically run the
Folding@Home distributed computing effort.
I am guessing ther
This amazing number of participants may be misleading.
For instance, I've been running a SETI@home client ... (okay, okay, it's because
SETI supports uncommon platforms) and was quite amazed, when I returned my first
completed workunit, to find that I was now ahead of over 30% of their users.
A
On 22 Oct 2002 at 14:40, Jeff Woods wrote:
> At 09:09 AM 10/22/02 -0600, you wrote:
>
> >Folding@Home's success:
> >http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/10/021022070813.htm
> >
> >Again, they mention SETI@home. As if that were the only other
> >distributed project out there. *sigh*
>
> Two
At 09:09 AM 10/22/02 -0600, you wrote:
Folding@Home's success:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/10/021022070813.htm
Again, they mention SETI@home. As if that were the only other
distributed project out there. *sigh*
Two years ago, Pande launched Folding@home a distributed computing
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>> Folding@Home's success:
>>
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[mailto:mersenne-invalid-
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> Folding@Home's success:
> http:/
Folding@Home's success:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/10/021022070813.htm
Again, they mention SETI@home. As if that were the only other
distributed project out there. *sigh*
Eric Weddington
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