Speaking only for myself. > My take is that due to the long test times the "instant gratification" > that used to come fairly quickly even on a most speed machine is no > longer there. This will turn off a lot of casual testers.
This is certainly one reason why my contribution (the MSRC team) has halved the amount of computation dedicated to GIMPS. It's not the major one, though. > Another consideration is that many system/network administrators have > gotten ludicrous about what they will allow on their networks. They think The major reason is that I no longer build the workstations for our researchers, and so I no longer get to install the NT service version by default! Another, very important reason is that there are a number of other CNT projects in progress to which I contribute and/or organize. It might not be too tactful to proselytize here, so I won't go into detail. However, some of the stuff we do is eminently suitable for 486 and low-end pentium machines. Drop me a mail if you may be interested. > Been around GIMPS since before PrimeNet. Ditto. Paul _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
