In my opinion, 486's are definitely good for ECM. I'm running a bunch of
old DECstation 5000/25 at home, each of which is about as powerful as a
DX2-66. I'm using the ECMNET client/server code. One machine is the
server and all are clients. (My home net is not internet-connected so I
can't use the master server at 193.128.60.129). So far, they have found
about fifteen factors of Cullen, Woodall and N!+1 numbers. I can't see any
reason at all why your 486 boxes shouldn't be equally successful, whether
with George's ECM code or the ECMNET version.
Paul
-----Original Message-----
From: David M. Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 15 May 1999 07:05
To: Mersenne@Base. Com
Subject: RE: Mersenne: usefulness and 486's
On 14 May 99, at 22:31, Aaron Blosser wrote:
> You could also do something more conducive to the 486 environment...I
> don't know - is ECM good work for a 486?
I don't know. That was going to be my next question if it was decided
that 486's are wasting time :-) Although none of the other projects have
really grabbed my attention, I would put the 486's on to another project if
they were more suited to what ever that project does.
David
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