Hi all,
At 12:33 PM 5/12/2001 +0200, Achim Passauer wrote:
>Dietmar, thanks for your answer. Well that might be an explanation but to
>move thousands of exponents from the cleared list to the still-to-do-list
>would also mean a major setback, wouldnŽt it? And IŽd highly appreciate to
>be informed about that by Entropia or George.
Dietmar's guess was accurate. Six weeks ago there were grumblings on the
list that we were making slow progress on double-checking milestones. I
promised to make monthly checks of my database and the server's database
and make exponents available for triple-checking when necessary.
I did this yesterday. Not all exponents are triple checks, some were exponents
that were never added to the servers list of exponents to double-check.
Why did this affect the server's counts? Well, that's a long story. It has to
do with design decisions (compromises actually) made at Primenet's inception.
Primenet's database is a subset of the master database which I maintain
3000 miles away from the server. In an ideal world there would only be one
database maintained by the server and all database maintenance (like
triple-checks) would be handled automatically.
To make matters worse, Primenet was not originally designed to
hand out double-checking assignments. This has resulted in some minor
glitches, especially when double-checking and first-time checking ranges
overlap.
Scott/Entropia gave me a simple tool to do some remote server database
maintenance. I can schedule triple-checks by essentially telling the server
to forget about the double-check result it already has.
This is not a setback for the project. To get accurate counts of the master
database, visit http://www.mersenne.org/status.htm. There you will see
that 157,484 exponents have been double-checked and 127,720 exponents
have been tested once.
Hope that helps,
George
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