At 09:01 PM 1999/06/10 -0400, you wrote:
>The status page shows that for exponents in the range 3,310,000-3,960,000,
>there are 225 exponents for which 2 L-L tests have been done, yet there are
>40 exponents for which no factor is known, and no LL test has been done. I
>have 2 questions:
>
>1. Why have 2nd LL tests been done in many cases when there are still
>exponents whose status is unknown?
>
>2. Exponents over 6,000,000 have been assigned for a couple of months or
>so. Why are large exponents being assigned when there are still smaller
>ones in need of a LL test?
The Internet Primenet Server is not the only pool of exponents.
Some people are getting exponents manually assigned via the webpage; I get
mine by email from George.
I request exponents below 5,260,000 because that's what I'm mostly set up
to run, with a separate primenet V2.x server and numerous v14.4 clients.
One of the blocks I've been assigned by George includes 3,960,000, which is
currently issuing rapidly. When an exponent gets put on a slow machine and
nears the bottom of the untested-once list, I move its intermediate result
files to a fast box to accelerate achievement of the next GIMPS milestone.
Several other Intel cpus I run which are 200Mhz and up are busy running
1 or 2 full LLtests in each run length, also reserved by email from George.
After all, the IPS won't issue in the upper ranges yet, so testing ahead
of the pack for QA purposes requires other means.
Ken
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