----- Original Message ----- From: "Torben Schl�ntz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 10:26 PM Subject: Mersenne: just some comments to improve our site
> Why is P-1 factoring not a single schedule task? like the LL and the > Trail Factoring? > > Why is P1 factoring hooked upon the LL test? > Why does P1 not have it's own life like the TF and the LL? This has been discussed at length. The problem is that it is difficult to get the server code changed. [...] > Some people might have "plenty" of mem - outdoing my best a 512M - but > some of the machines I (or maybe Primenet) have selected for P-1 have > nothing more than 64 or 128M. If you have several machines, with different amounts of available RAM, then you could perhaps give P-1 work of the other machines to the one with the greatest. That would involve some manual labour. > Also the newsletter should more often be sent. We make progress every > day so why don't we tell GIMPS'ers what is happening? Even a small > progress is a giant leap, like "now all numbers below 4.900.000 has been > doublechecked" or "All numbers below 16.000.000 has been trial > factorized". Have we sent a newletter since finding M#39? > Just my few words > happy hunting > tsc Daran _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
