> I'd like to ask the following of readers of this list who have been
working on
> an exponent for more than 1 year, and have an expected completion date
after
> 9/9/99.
my slowest machine, a old 430FX based pentium-100 which has been on GIMPS
since well before Primenet, is currently taking about 60 days per LL test.
It runs 24/7, its only other duties currently are 'print server' and 'fax
modem'. I may be converting it to a linux system to act as an internet
gateway at some point, presumably then I will save its work-in-progress and
set it up as with the linux version (or move its todo over to my new
p3-500).
btw, I disagree with the current policy of not letting slowish machines like
this do LL tests, this machine cranks out a exponent every 60 days, has been
an old faithful, I see no reason to retire it from the test, hence have not
updated it to the current software, its still running 16.x. I currently
have about 12 systems working total and have logged 27+ p90 years with IPS
(and another 4+ with pre-IPS GIMPS).
1 - pentium 100
2 - pentium 120
1 - pentium 150
1 - pentium 166
1 - pentium 200
2 - PentiumPro 200 (really 1 system w/ 2 cpus)
1 - Pentium-II 300
2 - Pentium-II 400
1 - Pentium-III 500+
[the 300 is actually a 266 at 75MHz for 300 core speed, and the 500+ is
actually a 450 currently being 'burned in' at 120Mhz (540MHz core)... no
prime95 errors at all to date]
-jrp
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