> > Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 17:19:58 +0200 > From: Nacho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Mersenne: GIMPS on Sun Sparc. > > Hello everyone. > > Please excuse my english, I'm spanish. > > I will have a SparcStation at work and I want to put it to do some useful work > with GIMPS. > > I was reading Mersenne pages about software for Solaris and it seems that the > best program is MLucas 2.7a. > A SparcStation is not a very fast machine and I will have it only for 6 > months, so perhaps it will not be very fast to do LL test in new exponents, > and perhaps I'll do doublecheck better. > I have some questions: > > Are there binaries for Mfactor for Sparc/Solaris? I found Mlucas binaries but > not Mfactor binaries. I don't have a f90 compiler. > > I suppose that LL results are 100% identical to Prime95 results, so LL test > will be accepted by primenet server in manual assignment, right? > > If I use the manual assignment pages at PrimeNet, will I receive time credits > at Primenet status pages? > > Thanks in advance for your help. > > Bye! It would have been helpful if you identified the particular model of SparcStation you are using. I have run Mfactor and could make a binary available if people want it. If it is something like a 50 or 70Mhz Sparc 5 or similar I would suggest you might like to contribute to NFSnet. I have one 50Mhz SparcClassic which churns through a range in about 20 days. It's really far too slow to be any use for GIMPS. Bill Rea, Information Technology Dept., Canterbury University \_ E-Mail b dot rea at it dot canterbury dot ac dot nz </ New Phone 64-3-364-2331, Fax 64-3-364-2332 /) Zealand Unix Systems Administrator (/' _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.exu.ilstu.edu/mersenne/faq-mers.txt
