On 19 Oct 99, at 15:05, Ken Kriesel wrote:
> Surely there are other programs. There must be various factoring efforts
> running on non-Intel processors under non-Microsoft operating systems.
Indeed there are. There are several factoring programs in the mers
suite, also Ernst Mayer's Mfactor pr
At 07:49 AM 1999/10/19 +0100, Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 12:28:52AM -0500, Ken Kriesel wrote:
>> How would you extend this concept to P-1, ECM, and factoring save files?
>
>As far as I'm aware prime95 is the only program to do P-1, ECM or
>factoring so I wa
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 12:28:52AM -0500, Ken Kriesel wrote:
> How would you extend this concept to P-1, ECM, and factoring save files?
As far as I'm aware prime95 is the only program to do P-1, ECM or
factoring so I wasn't intending that the save files should include
these. Maybe they should?
How would you extend this concept to P-1, ECM, and factoring save files?
Would revisions to the standard format be handled within the 8-byte
Ascii file identifier, or in a separate field?
Ken
At 08:22 AM 1999/10/17 +0100, Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Some time ago I proposed a st
On Sun, Oct 17, 1999 at 03:21:49PM +0100, Brian J. Beesley wrote:
> On 17 Oct 99, at 8:22, Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
> > I'd like to propose for discussion a simple cross-platform save file format
> > as below.
> >
> > Width Value Description
> >
> > 8 "MersSave" in ASCII as
On 17 Oct 99, at 8:22, Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
> Some time ago I proposed a standard format for save files. It also
> had the advantage that it only saved the actual bits used so would
> make the save files 1MByte rather than 1.8 MByte for an 8,000,000
> exponent in prime95.
Yes - this idea is u
On Sun, Oct 17, 1999 at 02:13:33AM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 03:46:30PM +0100, Chris Jefferson wrote:
> >However, proving that they has used the
> >interim file generated by this particular program might be difficult...
>
> Not very. Save files are incompatible
On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 03:46:30PM +0100, Chris Jefferson wrote:
>However, proving that they has used the
>interim file generated by this particular program might be difficult...
Not very. Save files are incompatible from program to program. Or at least
so I think...
Converting a savefile is als
On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, Jukka Santala wrote:
> Except that PrimeNet doesn't control the prize. This is the error everybody is doing.
> EFF is adminstrating the competition and prize, given by anonymous donaters to
The EFF is requiring full disclosure. So if somebody used the GIMPS
client to find t
On 16 Oct 99, at 7:35, Jukka Santala wrote:
> [ ... snip ... ]
> Except that PrimeNet doesn't control the prize. This is the error everybody is doing.
> EFF is adminstrating the competition and prize, given by anonymous donaters to
> advance distributed computing / mathemathical algorithms on com
On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, Jukka Santala wrote:
> "Brian J. Beesley" wrote:
>
> > On 14 Oct 99, at 18:15, Chris Jefferson wrote:
> > Surely this isn't really an issue. PrimeNet would surely recognise a
> > result submitted by a "poacher" as such & either disqualify it
> > automatically, or credit the
"Brian J. Beesley" wrote:
> On 14 Oct 99, at 18:15, Chris Jefferson wrote:
> Surely this isn't really an issue. PrimeNet would surely recognise a
> result submitted by a "poacher" as such & either disqualify it
> automatically, or credit the actual owner of the assignment instead
> of the "poache
> > Personally, I think the big problem with regards to this is not people
> > quitting so much as the possibility of major hard-drive failure etc. on the
> > testers. I doubt many of them keep good backups
>
> NO EXCUSE! A Zip drive or a CD-R is inexpensive and effective; one
> will service ma
On 14 Oct 99, at 18:37, Jukka Santala wrote:
> Personally, I think the big problem with regards to this is not people
> quitting so much as the possibility of major hard-drive failure etc. on the
> testers. I doubt many of them keep good backups
NO EXCUSE! A Zip drive or a CD-R is inexpensive a
On 14 Oct 99, at 18:15, Chris Jefferson wrote:
> > Also one would have to ask what would be the incencitive for someone to act
> > as a backup server... or prevent them from "stealing the work" as it were, by
> > using high-speed computers to finish the test a month before the main person
> > doe
On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 06:15:52PM +0100, Chris Jefferson wrote:
>In my personal opinion, the best way of doing this would be to set up 3
>computers in a 'loop' all doing the same exponent. Then they could
>communicate at regular intervals.
We are already doing this manually, although only with 2
> Also one would have to ask what would be the incencitive for someone to act
> as a backup server... or prevent them from "stealing the work" as it were, by
> using high-speed computers to finish the test a month before the main person
> does in hopes of getting the prize.
I think that the new l
"Steinar H. Gunderson" wrote:
> There are two problems with this approach. First, entropia.com will need
> some HD space to hold these files (they are big...). Second, they will
> also need bandwidth to receive all those big (and not very compressible)
Personally, I think the big problem with re
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 04:15:11PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Well, as completion time gets longer and longer, it becomes more likely
>that a user will give up in disgust. This could be after several months
>of work is already complete.
That's part the reason why searching for >10,000,000
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