Mersenne Digest Sunday, April 22 2001 Volume 01 : Number 842 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 07:38:23 -0000 From: "Brian J. Beesley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Mersenne: Minor bug in mprime v20.6 Hi, When upgrading an Athlon system from 650 MHz to 1200 MHz, I discovered a minor bug in mprime v20.6. If you try to use the Options/CPU entry on the menu to set the CPU speed above 1000 MHz, you get an error message telling you to pick a sensible value. Prime95 v20.6 is happy to accept a CPU speed of 1200 MHz; it looks as though someone forgot to relax the "sanity check" on the CPU speed in the mprime-specific menu code when processors faster than 1GHz started to appear. The workaround is simple. Change the CPU speed by editing local.ini, then use the menu to change the CPU type to something else then back again to generate the signal needed to inform PrimeNet about the change. I don't think we need a maintainance release at this point, but it would be nice to have the bug fixed in the next release. Regards Brian Beesley _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 22:35:59 +0200 From: "Martijn Kruithof" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Mersenne: Mersenne stats screwed up Hello It seems like the primenet statistics got wrong one way or another, all activity since the 12th of this month has been removed from my activity report. How serious is this (only temporary / not temporary but final results checked in are ok / not ok at all checked in final results are lost) Kind regards, Martijn _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 20:43:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Russel Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Mersenne: Distributed Computing Mandatory For Juno's Free ,Users] David L. Nicol wrote: > I imagine a better GIMPS graphical display would look like part of > the set from "twelve monkeys" with fake big black dials and twitching > needles, that indicate system performance and available swap space > and so forth. It could be a cute graphical system monitor application. You know, this isn't a bad idea. Over clockers already use Gimps to test their systems, why not provide some useful info too? If an OPTIONAL screen saver came with Gimps that provided useful system info we might get people attracted to Gimps to get the "cool system info panel" (which by the way requires Gimps to be running in the background). Cheers... Russ _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 15:55:17 -0500 From: Shane & Amy Sanford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Mersenne: Primenet? Is it just me or did the Primenet database just get restored back to a April 12th version? I noticed my stats dropped back and it claims all my machines havn't checked in since April 12th (I know better). Also the exponents I've finished since that time are showing up in the Exponents Assigned column rather than the cleared section. Shane _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 14:15:13 -0700 From: "Aaron Blosser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Mersenne: Distributed Computing Mandatory For Juno's Free Users] > > As another point, I know many who are in SETI solely for the nice > > graphical display. I don't know whether GIMPS, given the abstract > > nature of the work we do, could ever really develop such a display. > I imagine a better GIMPS graphical display would look like part of > the set from "twelve monkeys" with fake big black dials and twitching > needles, that indicate system performance and available swap space > and so forth. It could be a cute graphical system monitor application. > > Of course you can maximize your prime95 window. Hmm... not all that interesting to most folks... perhaps just have Prime95 update some SNMP counters... I think it'd be "neato" to use MRTG to track various counters of the machines I have running Prime95/NTPrime. Then you're just offloading the task of doing charts and stuff to some other machine. Doesn't really address the issue of having it show some cool stuff locally, although someone could write a screen saver that takes those counters and does something with it on the client itself. Also has the nice benefit of keeping the task of groovy displays out of the code of the program, and lets others write their own "plug ins" in any way they want. Aaron _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 18:15:28 -0400 From: Nathan Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Mersenne: Distributed Computing Mandatory For Juno's Free Users] On Fri, 20 Apr 2001 14:15:13 -0700, Aaron Blosser wrote: >perhaps just have Prime95 update some SNMP counters... I think it'd be >"neato" to use MRTG to track various counters of the machines I have running >Prime95/NTPrime. Then you're just offloading the task of doing charts and >stuff to some other machine. > >Doesn't really address the issue of having it show some cool stuff locally, >although someone could write a screen saver that takes those counters and >does something with it on the client itself. Also has the nice benefit of >keeping the task of groovy displays out of the code of the program, and lets >others write their own "plug ins" in any way they want. > >Aaron Earlier, I suggested the idea of a graphical display that would show the Tower of Hanoi, with either one (or two, as needed) steps for each iteration done. This would make it look like things were continiously done, and I wouldn't think it'd be very hard to code. Nathan _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 16:41:06 -0600 From: "Matt Goodrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: Mersenne: Primenet? No it's not just you. All mine since the April 12 have disappeared as well. Have lost 4 exponents and about 1.3 CPU years. Matt - -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Shane & Amy Sanford Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 2:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mersenne: Primenet? Is it just me or did the Primenet database just get restored back to a April 12th version? I noticed my stats dropped back and it claims all my machines havn't checked in since April 12th (I know better). Also the exponents I've finished since that time are showing up in the Exponents Assigned column rather than the cleared section. Shane _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 16:27:15 -0700 From: "Stefanovic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Mersenne: Primenet? Individual account reports seem to be restored; but producers rankings still seem circa 12Apr. Regards, Stefanovic - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Goodrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 3:41 PM Subject: RE: Mersenne: Primenet? > No it's not just you. All mine since the April 12 have disappeared as well. > Have lost 4 exponents and about 1.3 CPU years. > Matt > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Shane & Amy > Sanford > Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 2:55 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Mersenne: Primenet? > > > Is it just me or did the Primenet database just get restored back to a > April 12th version? I noticed my stats dropped back and it claims all my > machines havn't checked in since April 12th (I know better). Also the > exponents I've finished since that time are showing up in the Exponents > Assigned column rather than the cleared section. > > Shane > > _________________________________________________________________________ > Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm > Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers > > _________________________________________________________________________ > Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm > Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 20:59:06 -0400 From: Nathan Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Mersenne: [slightly OT] Web discussion about distributed computing I just posted an article on one of my favorite discussion boards, known as Half-Empty, about distributed computing, asking people on the site to vote for, and post comments about, their favorite project. http://www.half-empty.org/servlet/LoadPage?pageID=idea&ideaid=1644&sortmode=3&viewmode=3 I thought the prime community might want to stop by and take a look at what's been said. I don't intend to 'stack' the poll - I posted there that I was going to mention it here - but I thought it might be interesting for the members of the GIMPS and prime lists to see what a group of people on the net think about distributed computing. The poll I posted will be up until later this week, so you may want to stop by and follow the discussion. Half-Empty is a very cool site in general, and I spend hours on end there; if you want to make an account and post, I'm sure they'd be very interested in what you have to say. Nathan _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers ------------------------------ End of Mersenne Digest V1 #842 ******************************
