On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 03:38:14AM -0500, Richard Woods wrote: > The cases of conflict you cite had no such method for avoiding > duplication/overlap. Early GIMPS and the other project > (Slowinski/Cray) had no common agreement or method for avoiding > duplication.
Umm, I've not been in this project _that_ long, but at least a year or two before Primenet got integrated into the main client. At least at that time, all communication was done by e-mailing George requests for ranges (a list of free ranges was available on the GIMPS website), George solving conflicts if two people requested the same range. (All results were also handed back to George via e-mail, of course.) Are you talking even older than that? :-) /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
