> If I see a test that will take well over a year, is it wrong of me to just
> do it myself with a manual assignment?
Yes. I would get very pissed if someone snatched an exponent which I
already spent a year of work on, and am still working on, without even
telling me in advance. Hey, you coud have the P###-files, but tell me!
As long as the people working on the exponent are actualy working of them,
I think it is very little nice of you to hijack their exponents without
even sending them an email in advance!
At least: Stay away from my exponents! If you touch them, I will find
you with the completed exponents report, track you down, tell the FBI that
they don't have all your computer equipment and that you are searching for
primes again, force you to to switch to SETI@home and factor the exponents
you've tested to pieces, so that you'll loose credit for all the CPU time!
Be afraid. B-)
Also, most of my assignments, both double cheking and first time, are
running on non-Intel Unix boxes. These are reserved directly form George,
not from Primenet, so you won't find them. The Primenet software have
flaws which makes it unuseable for other packages than Prime95/mprime.
Primenet once hijacked 58 of the double cheking assignments I was working
on due to a bug in the Primenet software. Unfortunately the next batch I
got mostly contained exponents which wanted 256K FFT size instead of 128K.
256K FFT size means more than tvice the CPU-time, which means to slow to
test on an Indy. Those 58 machines are therefore retired from GIMPS. 8-(
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