> 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.
Actually closer to 22-23 months per day now, with 285 machines. I do
feel
guilty about making it difficult for an individual or group to make it
to
the top. I do NOT feel that I have much more of a chance then an average
individual does at finding the next Mersenne Prime though. The guy who
spends hundreds, even thousands of dollars on lottery tickets does not
have that much more of a chance at winning the lottery then the guy who
only buys one ticket. The odds of finding a Mersenne Prime are so small
that
I do not expect to ever find one, even though it would be nice! Over
time
the TempleU-CAS account will drop down from #1 and will be replaced by
some other Johnny-Come-Lately, our machines are aging and will be
obsolete
sooner then you think!
In order to categorize who belongs in what category, I propose that
IPS be expanded to allow an account to display a URL where the account
can post information about their account and their status. SUNY Albany
did this, as did team love fest, and did I.
See:
http://hawk.fab2.albany.edu/mersenne/mersenne.htm
http://etc.temple.edu/gimps/
http://myhouse.com/love/fest/team/index.html
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