Perhaps we've found the ideal place for that additional prize money that
several on the list are desiring to offer. Give the additional prize money
to the category 3 GIMPSer that discovers the next Mersenne prime. I'm sure
there are some flaws with this approach, but it's worth discussion. One
potential problem is verifying that the person is category 3 since it would
be somewhat of an "honor" call.
Kent D. Johnson
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> >From: Spike Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 21:57:59 -0800
> >Subject: Mersenne: who has the most wicked-fast home setup?
> >
> >Let category 1 GIMPSers be set that contains those GIMPSers that
> >use a number of commercially owned or institutional computers, such
> >as the champion TempleU.
> >
> >Let category 2 GIMPSers be set that contains those GIMPSers that
> >use a combination of commercial and home computers.
> >
> >Let category 3 GIMPSers be set that contains those GIMPSers that
> >use only computers located in the home of that GIMPSer and owned
> >by that GIMPSer.
> >
> >Are there any cat 3 GIMPSers in the top 100 producers? Top 200?
> >Who is the highest ranking cat 3 GIMPSer?
>
> I have been thinking about this for quite a while now. When I
> joined GIMPS
> back in thee mosts of pre-history (well, Fall 96 actually)
> there were only
> about 800 or so volunteers in the project.
>
> In thos days it was quite easy to actually make a mark in the rankings
> table, I seem to recall at one point just after finding
> M2976221 that I
> moved up to about number 78 in the rankings.
>
> The only machines I had were a P100 (home, 24 hours), PPRO200
> (work, 24
> hours) and about 6 hours a day on 3 or 4 P166's.
>
> Nowadays I still have the trusty P100 that found the prime,
> but I also have
> 8 other machines that I can get some access time on, my
> ranking has now
> disappeared into the depths.
>
> What bothers me most I guess is that the ordinary humble joe
> in the street
> being realistic has no chance whatever of finding the next
> mersenne prime.
> Over-reacting? maybe, but when people like templeu have over
> 300 machines
> of PPRO200/PII300+ running think about it. They are
> generating about 14
> months of cpu per day.
>
> If we are going to continue to recruit new *individual*
> members or thos
> like me who can get time on a few computers as opposed to
> hundreds then
> shouldn't we be thinking about splitting the rankings based
> on the numbers
> of machines being used.
>
> Of course, if I could get my employer signed up and use all
> the 25,000+
> pc's then I may well change my mind ;-))
>
> regards
>
> G
>
>
>
> Gordon Spence, Nokia IP Telephony
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