Hi all,
If you have a PrimeNet question, you'll get a faster answer if you email us at
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much later than your messages. I'm also concerned about people dumping a lot of
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of number theory and related algorithms.
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> The last time I sent results in my total exponents tested was 7 and Cpu years
> were 1.670. Since then my account has been updated to 8 exponents and 1.929
years.
> This happened after the new server went on line. I'm sure I have checked only
> seven exponents so is there a problem with the servers information?
> Yeah! I've also have had some problems, but I've lost one exponent.
> God knows who was the lucky to have it assigned and if I will be capable
> of having it again!
If there's a discrepancy, please email me directly. It takes only a few moments
to set an account to the correct state.
For some accounts that submitted results between 5 and 7 February inclusive,
PrimeNet's 3.1 database required a set of roll-forward transactions to correct a
table corruption before the upgrade to 4.0. We have a complete 3.1 transaction
history, though checking it directly against the 4.0 server is not easy. We have
endeavored to be as thorough as possible, and have restored almost all affected
accounts to normal.
A symptom related to this is that your program may have switched userids because
of a built in automatic fail-safe feature. In most cases, simply changing the
userid/pw back again resolves this (including errors that an exponent is still
assigned to your primary account ID). Use the User Information settings - do not
edit the ini file.
> The ONLY mention of the contest is at the bottom of the page, What
> should we make of this?
>
> 1) it's a glitch.
> 2) there is no more prize.
> 3) somebody as won the previous prize !!!
The contest link is two lines below. Attention to the contest is updated
whenever necessary, but it's a motivating factor for participation, not the
basis of the project.
> If a automatic statistics history file containing a log of
> daily throughput rates was put up, one of us could probably
> write a script to produce an automatically updated graph
> similar to the one on http://entropia.com/ips/stats.html
This was on our to do list, but ok. Let's try it. I'll make it even easier.
Assume you have an input text file with two comma-separated text values per
line: total CPU time for a given day (float 7.4f), and the date for that day
(DD/MM/YYYY). Make up some test input.
Send me a script that outputs a GIF image of the chart made from the input file.
I prefer Perl 5 and MS Excel, so please check with me first before you
substitute software tools to see if we have it or want to get it.
Regards,
scott
