> Paul Derbyshire wrote:
> > Sounds like a lot to me. This CPU I have can finish LL tests in
> that kind of
> > time, except that I have a habit of using it for other things a
> lot of the
> > time.
>
> It may seem like a long time to you, but I've been interested in Mersenne
> Primes as an observer since around 1978-9, and as a participant
> in GIMPS before primenet,
> back when exponents were more like 700,000 rather than 7,000,000,
> which has been
> what, 3, 4 years?
>
> Moreover, George and Scott have always been very clear and
> forthright about
> what's going on in GIMPS/Primenet. I've never met George and Scott in
> person, but I've dealt with them in regard to GIMPS/Primenet, and I want
> to take this opportunity to say publically that they are a primary reason
> that almost all my idle cycles remain dedicated to the GIMPS.
I also, as someone whose been in GIMPS since nearly the beginning, don't
consider a few weeks of lost time to be very much. I run NTPrime/Prime95 on
anywhere from 30-50 processors at any given time. The version 17.x bug was
annoying, and I had a few machines that were just about finished. But it's
not a big deal. I just started over. Cumulatively, I probably wasted
nearly a couple P-90 CPU years, but so what?
I do this for fun...before there was any prize, whether I'm able to run on
just 1 machine or several thousand :-) or whether I'm doing just factoring
work, double-checks, or LL tests (or a healthy mix of all 3).
If losing a few weeks work is so upsetting, perhaps you should examine your
motivation.
Just my $0.02 worth...
Aaron
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