----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: gordon spence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 3:01 PM
Subject: Re: Mersenne: Re: Top Producers
> Gordon Spence wrote:
> >I went to check my account just on the entropia web-sites
> >individual accounts report page. The default userid is challenge,
> >I just hit enter without thinking and this is the report
>
> >[...SNIP...]
>
> >Can somebody, anybody, please explain how 1 cpu @ 500 and 1 @448 can
> >possibly equal 6194 hours per day!!!!
>
Other factors influence the "hours per day" report, too:
1. Forming a group with a few slow machines, then adding a slew of faster
ones bit by bit, causes an underestimate to be reported, but one which
gradually increases as the new machines report in.
2. How Ms are picked for processing *seems* to influence the numbers, too:
PrimeNet can assign exponents automatucally, according to a (to me)
rather
mysterious protocol, or numbers can be gotten using Manual Testing
Forms.
Best Wishes,
Stefanovic
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