On 15 Jan 2002, at 23:26, Torben Schlüntz wrote: > 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? > > I realy hated the P1 until now 21.4 fixed that.
I think George has answered those more than adequately. > And I hated the > CPU-clocks of earlier versions to, because I have no idea what so ever > the clock beat of my computer is, but I can relate to time. Ah, but the raw clocks give you a lot of information about the relative efficiency of different systems. In any case, the "clock time" per iteration is calculated from the raw clocks and the CPU speed (as configured in local.ini - not the actual CPU speed!) and may therefore be misleading - e.g. when a system is running in thermal throttled mode, or a Speed Step (tm) processor is running slow because the system is operating on battery power. > > 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. Which is absolutely fine, unless you're running P-1 stage 2 on 10 million digit exponents - in which case 128 MB is tight, though still feasible. I actually ran P-1 stage 2 on 40025087 on a system with 128 MB (for lack of anything better at the time); it was _very_ tight but did complete. (Yes, it would have run faster with more memory.) > > We also need a a place for rapid starters. Some "Gazelle" view. > Wow! Even though I've only done 0,323 P90 years I'm number 33 in this > week!!!! I will certainly continue, because I will catch up with those > guys having 79 years!!!! > Hmmm, maybe in percentage of the week before. I'm not sure what you mean by this. > > 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". The web page http://www.mersenne.org/status.htm already carries this sort of information, updated approximately weekly. Regards Brian Beesley _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
