Re: Mersenne: Dissed again

[Gareth Randall]

Yeah, I noticed that one of their "top 100" users has an average work unit time of less than 30 minutes. Compare that to the ~22 hours I'm getting for a PII 450Mhz, and the SGI team's average of over 6 hours even though they're running on just about the most powerful (and sadly, most expensive and least common) floating point architecture going, 64-bit MIPS.

What the hell is this guy pretending to be running? I hope they're disregarding the results of his workunits (almost certainly not.)

False data like this would represent dark patches in the sky wherever duplicate work units to this user overlap. Fortunately for SETI that's not terribly bad. For GIMPS it could mean loss of data that would never be found again for decades.


Richard Woods wrote:

Let's not be _too_ eager to emulate SETI@home's popularity
and user-friendliness --

http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/security/story/0,2000024985,20269509,00
.htm

"Cheats wreak havoc on SETI@home: participants"

"SETI@home administrators are allegedly ignoring claims that the
project is being sabotaged by miscreants who are threatening to
derail its reputation and that of many valuable Internet-based
distributed computing projects."


Richard Woods

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