Re: Mersenne: Re: Mersenne Digest V1 #941

2002-02-28 Thread Mary K. Conner
At 12:06 AM 3/1/02 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Was there _really_ no posting made to the Mersenne mailing list between Mon, 18 Feb 2002 (02:19:32 -0500 From: Justin Valcourt) and Tue, 26 Feb 2002 (19:46:54 +0100 From: Henk Stokhorst) ?? A span of over eight days with no message? Really?

Re: Mersenne: error: Another mprime is already running!

2002-03-01 Thread Mary K. Conner
At 08:58 PM 3/1/02 +, Brian J Beesley wrote: That would be a crude and surely unusual way of economising Definitely so, but it's the only way I can think of that someone might use a hard link when installing mprime For someone coming from Windows, that might be the way they think to do it

Re: Mersenne: 11438839 Lost !?

2002-03-02 Thread Mary K. Conner
At 02:28 AM 3/3/02 +0200, Daidalos wrote: Hmm Do I remember having finished one more exponent? Indeed According to my primelog file, I send the result for exponent 11438839 on Wed Nov 07 17:42:43 2001 I also seem to remember that it used to appear on my result report before I don't recall

RE: Mersenne: Which changes have been made to the server

2002-04-02 Thread Mary K. Conner
At 03:13 AM 4/2/02 -0800, Aaron wrote: I think there's always some of that when they do a database sync. What truly puzzles me is that I *still* have exponents showing up on my status page (thus, apparently not synchronized) going back to March of *last* year. Again, that has always been the

Re: Mersenne: My numbers have been re-assigned to someone else...

2002-10-04 Thread Mary K. Conner
At 06:15 PM 10/4/02 +0100, Barry Stokes wrote: Was using 21.4.2, now on 22.9.2 (upgraded today). It only grabbed a few exponents when I started it, and it wasn't that the program released them, they were just re-assigned by the server. The trouble is, I have now completed one of these factoring

Re: Mersenne: Poach?

2002-11-19 Thread Mary K. Conner
At 01:30 PM 11/19/02 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Individual Account Report 15 Nov 2002 16:54 (Nov 15 2002 9:54AM Pacific) 11976787 65 447705659.6 11.0 61.0 15-Nov-02 15:43 17-Sep-02 02:26 hl 1196 v19/v20 Individual Account Report 19 Nov 2002 08:00 (Nov 19 2002

Re: Mersenne: Drifting UP(!) in Top Producers ranking?

2002-11-20 Thread Mary K. Conner
At 11:27 PM 11/20/02 +, Russel Brooks wrote: I have 3 pcs doing factoring. I have been checking my position on the Primenet Top Producers Factoring list. I have noticed my position drifting up in the standing while I haven't found any factors. How does happen? You get credit for your

Re: SV: SV: SV: Mersenne: Drifting UP(!) in Top Producers ranking?

2002-11-25 Thread Mary K. Conner
At 11:04 PM 11/25/02 +0100, =?utf-8?Q?Torben_Schl=C3=BCntz?= wrote: No, and I am not the GIMPS police. It would offcourse be quite easy simply to check all accounts having done 5+ years TF and having more than 0,6 years pr. foundfactor. On the other hand some accounts could be very old

Mersenne: Runaway machine sucked up all the factoring assignments

2003-01-01 Thread Mary K. Conner
The machine novarese/NSPC19 has gotten itself into a loop and reserved tons of factoring assignments and PrimeNet is now out of them. Damn Y2.003K bug! :) _ Unsubscribe list info --

Re: Mersenne: Factoring Top 100

2003-01-21 Thread Mary K. Conner
At 12:07 AM 1/22/03 +, Russel Brooks wrote: Well I've recently reached my 2nd GIMPS goal of getting into the top 100 factoring. Last summer I made it to the top 1000 LL testers and then switched from double checks to factoring to make my mark there. Now what to try for? :-) Bah, top 100

Re: Mersenne: Re: Mersenne Digest V1 #1036

2003-01-26 Thread Mary K. Conner
At 04:27 PM 1/24/03 +, Gordon Spence wrote: Of course, as this is a *public* volunteer project, there are a lot of us, who have been in the project for a long-time (6+ years) who regularly look through these for no other reason than we *want* to. Aye, I like having as detailed an access as

Re: Mersenne: Re: Mersenne Digest V1 #1038

2003-01-26 Thread Mary K. Conner
At 10:01 PM 1/26/03 +, Gordon Spence wrote: 4. Get it into perspective. The number of times this actually happens is miniscule. Out of the millions we have checked what are the poached items? Dozens, a few hundred?? Given that nobody poaches factoring assignments and the vast majority of

Re: Mersenne: Poaching -- Discouragement thereof

2003-01-27 Thread Mary K. Conner
At 10:45 PM 1/26/03 +, Brian J. Beesley wrote: On Sunday 26 January 2003 19:55, Mary K. Conner wrote: [ big snip - lots of _very_ sensible ideas!!! ] Primenet, and Primenet should preferentially give work over 64 bits to SSE2 clients, and perhaps direct others to factor only up to 64

Re: Mersenne: Re: Mersenne Digest V1 #1038

2003-01-27 Thread Mary K. Conner
At 10:06 PM 1/26/03 -0500, Paul Missman wrote: I know that this might be earth shattering news for you, but there is no such thing as poaching. Neither GIMPS or Primenet have any license to these numbers, nor are they the only entities testing large numbers for primality. If my sister reads

Re: Mersenne: Re: Mersenne Digest V1 #1039

2003-01-27 Thread Mary K. Conner
At 12:04 AM 1/28/03 +, Gordon Spence wrote: [snip] From: Mary K. Conner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mersenne: Re: Mersenne Digest V1 #1036 [snip] There are plenty of triple checks that happen accidentally. There is no GIMPS need to do some on purpose, especially to the detriment

Re: Mersenne: An officially sanctioned poach....

2003-01-28 Thread Mary K. Conner
At 10:08 AM 1/28/03 -0500, George Woltman wrote: At 09:36 PM 1/27/2003 -0800, Mary K. Conner wrote: Garo identified some Team_Prime_Rib exponents in there. I'll exempt all Team_Prime_Rib exponents Looking at the other exponents in the factoring range I'm not worried about reclaiming

Re: Mersenne: Why is trial factoring of small exponents slower than large ones?

2003-02-09 Thread Mary K. Conner
At 05:00 PM 2/7/03 +1300, G W Reynolds wrote: I am using mprime 22.12 on a pentium 166 MMX to do trial factoring. For the exponents currently being assigned from primenet it takes this machine about 12 minutes to factor from 2^57 to 2^58. I thought I would try factoring some small exponents