Mersenne: phew, one way to get cycles...

2001-03-21 Thread John R Pierce
heh, a friend just ran this by me for my amusement, seems a 3rd friend has juno.com as heir ISP and juno just revised their service agreement, embeeded in it was the following little nugget... 2.5. You expressly permit and authorize Juno to (i) download to your computer one or more pieces o

Re: Mersenne: phew

1999-07-16 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 10:05:25AM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: >If I recall, right now we are doing ... ah, I found the >table on George's site, duh. It's in commonc.h also, in case you have the Prime95/mprime source :-) >so how big of a FFT can the current 18.x.x Prime95 handle? Up to 1024K >F

Re: Mersenne: phew

1999-07-16 Thread John R Pierce
> > Well, the current range of Mp candidate values (just under 8,000,000) is > > described as using a 63 bit 'factor'... I would assume eventually this has > > to go to 64 bits, but I'm not clear on the relationship between the exponent > > and the FFT size and the 'fact bits' listed on the test s

Re: Mersenne: phew

1999-07-14 Thread John R Pierce
Steinar H. Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replies to me... > On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 09:28:08AM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > >So how far before we hit 64 bit and *really* get nailed for speed?? > > You mean 64 bits of optimal factoring? Unless George comes up with > something very smart (ie. a new

Mersenne: phew

1999-07-14 Thread John R Pierce
Geez, just noticed my newest processor (a 2nd P2-400 added to a dual CPU mobo) got 3 LL exponents in the 7,993,000 range. 8 million is right around the corner, phew. So how far before we hit 64 bit and *really* get nailed for speed?? prime fact days exponent bits run / to go / exp d

RE: Mersenne: phew. bigger and bigger

1999-02-20 Thread Aaron Blosser
> Just got my first primenet assignment over 7 million yesterday. phew. > estimated 65 days on a pentium 166mmx system (ok, so this is one > of my junk > boxes that happened to get it). I've got a couple of those myself. Scott Kurowski: Didn't you say that you had planned to increase the requir

Mersenne: phew. bigger and bigger

1999-02-20 Thread John R Pierce
Just got my first primenet assignment over 7 million yesterday. phew. estimated 65 days on a pentium 166mmx system (ok, so this is one of my junk boxes that happened to get it). -jrp Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.ne