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From: George Woltman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Daran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 24 July 2001 21:17
Subject: Re: Mersenne: P-1
>I'll see if I can work out a solution with Scott. A minimum solution would
>have
>the server return whether or not the exponent has already had P-1 factoring
>done.
Better, perhaps (but more work to implement) would be to have the server
return the B1 and B2 values used. The client could compare these to the
values it would use if it were going to do this, based upon its available
memory, and caculate whether a rerun would be economical.
>A better solution would include giving CPU credit for P-1
>factoring and making it a separate work type.
That might be a little complicated, since a machine which has high memory
availability only at night might be better off getting two different types
of work to do.
>I'll keep y'all posted.
>
>Best regards,
>George
Daran G.
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