> 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-)
Yow! I'll be sure and stay away from your exponents anyway!!! :-) The last
thing I need is for the FBI to come and take the 3 new machines I have at
home (and 2 of them belong to my company)!! :-)
The ones I grabbed (I went back and looked at the assigned work page on
Primenet...so if you manually got some from George, they wouldn't show up
there in theory) were *first time* checks that had completion dates at least
a year from now.
That way, when the original assignee checks in their result, it's at least
good for a double-check, which is what a machine that slow should've been
doing anyway. These are exponents in the 4M-5M range...there were very few
that were going to take over a year...thank goodness.
> 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.
I think that's what Jud McCranie was talking about with the un-tested
first-time exponents under 4M. I guess those are some that show up on the
mersenne.org status list. Now...correct me if I'm wrong, but not all
exponents that George keeps track of end up in Scott's Primenet
database...right? George still keeps a few that he assigns to people
manually? Or are there still some manual assignments that got passed out
*before* the advent of Primenet that STILL haven't been finished? Yow!
> Primenet once hijacked 58 of the double cheking assignments I was working
> on due to a bug in the Primenet software.
That's happened to me, strangely enough...every now and then when a machine
of mine update expected completion dates, it will release some exponents
because it says they were already tested (happened more often with factoring
assignments). I don't know why, and I haven't seen that happen lately...I
assume some bug was causing Primenet to assign the same exponent twice
maybe? No sweat off my brow though...I've turned in a few LL results that,
for whatever reason ended up being counted as a double-check instead of the
first time LL test it started out as, but again...each one get's
double-checked anyway, so it's all good.
Aaron
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