> Well - perhaps we need something to attract new users - a new search
> area which would provide short runs with rapid feedback, or some
> "useful" work which slower systems might complete before they make
> their journey to the landfill site. With respect to the message I
> forwarded earlier, perhaps hunting for primes of the form (2^p+1)/3
> might be interesting, and with at least a conjectural link to
> Mersenne numbers.
The integer factoring people can always use more cycles, and even antique
machines make valuable contributions in a reasonable time. For instance, I
have small number of DECstations and a Sun SS2 on my home network all
running the ECMNET client. These boxes are perhaps as powerful as a
486DX2-66. Certainly the P90 ECMNET server at home is significantly more
powerful than any of them. Until quite recently I was still using a 386-25
for factoring by MPQS.
Please contact me, or take a look at
http://research.microsoft.com/users/pleyland/factorization/main.htm and the
ECMNET site at http://www.loria.fr/~zimmerma/records/ecmnet.html if you'd
like more info.
Paul
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