How about just "give me 'n' DC/LL/Factoring assignments". Let me worry
about how fast my machines will complete them. You could even let me set
the expiry time (up to the max of 120 days). :)
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> Subject: Mersenne: Re: credit for manual testing
>
> Bill Rea wrote:
>
> >Do people using the manual check out forms get in the Top Producers
> >list? I ask because I've never been able to find myself in the list
> >and I had an email from a former GIMPS contributor who claimed he
> >got no credit for exponents tested through the manual check out/check in
> >pages.
>
> So far as I know, manual testing work doesn't get credited on the PrimeNet
> top producers pages, but does appear on the GIMPS top producers pages:
>
> http://www.mersenne.org./top.htm <== top 100 based on P90 CPU-years
> http://www.mersenne.org./top2.htm <== everybody else
>
> I don't know if manual testing results are included in the PrimeNet
> total FLOPS throughput figure, which has jumped appreciably in the
> last month.
>
> Thanks to Scott for adding CPU MHz and program version fields to the
> PrimeNet account status pages. One problem i noticed, however, is that
> all of my manual testing machines are listed as running Prime95 v16,
> even the ones that have in the past reported results using Mlucas.
>
> Lastly, it would also be nice to be able to enter something other than
> an x86 CPU type when requesting work from the PrimeNet server - right
> now I'm just clicking on "pentium" for all my non-x86 machines, so as
> to get an appropriate amount of work assigned. There could be preset
> fields for the better-known RISC CPUs, e.g.
>
> Alpha SGI/MIPS Sparc IBM RS6000 Mac/PowerPC
> --------- --------- --------- --------- ----------
> 21064/ev4 R3000 Sparc 1 (not sure ?
> 21164/ev5 R4000 Sparc 2 about the ?
> 21264/ev6 R5000 Sparc 5 early ones) 401
> R8000 Sparc 10 Power 1/SP1 403
> R10000 Ultra 1 Power 2/SP2 G3
> R12000 Ultra 2 Power 3/SP3 G4
>
> and an "other" field, where users can manually enter a type and speed
> for any other CPU types.
>
> I've ignored fine distinctions, e.g. the Alpha ev45 and ev56 and MIPS 4400
> in the above, and some of the types may be redundant, but the table is
> only for purposes of illustration. If Scott decides this is worthwhile,
> he can appeal to the axperts with various platforms for an appropriately
> representative set of CPU types.
>
> Cheers,
> -Ernst
>
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