>I propose (for maybe not the first time) two new systems:
>A) A double-checking cleanup team of computers. A team of (say) five
>PIII-500s, 64MB SRAM and suitable motherboards, with cheap everything else
>(cases, etc, and probably only one old monitor to share among them all)
>should be sent to work on the smallest exponents not doublechecked. I know
>that we don't want to "poach" (good word) anyone's work, but exponents at
>the
>VERY bottom of the list really *do* need to be finished. If the "owners" of
>those exponents are annoyed, we can credit them for the CPU time they've
>invested, or give them another exponent, etc. But the last dregs need to be
>taken care of. The team of doublechecking cleanup computers should be
>pretty
>small (I picked five) so that we don't poach too many exponents but still
>get
>the work done.
2 (since madpoo stopped) mersenne participant ( that I know of at the
moment) are doing exactly what you are suggesting. Every night one of my
computer ask for 7 days of double-checking work. Every morning I
redistribute small exponnent to my other computers and release any exponent
that are over a certain limit (2,025,000 at the moment). When my computer as
not enough work queued I just raise my limit.
That way I know that exponent are done in a timely manner and they won't be
re-re-assign to someone who is going to "sit on it".
of course it's alot of monitoring:)
David Campeau
P.S: Hope no one (akruppa, madpoo?) got mad because they could never get
those realy small exponent :)
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