RE: Mersenne: LLL

1999-05-13 Thread Aaron Blosser
Perhaps Scott could contact this fellow and see whats up? I know when I had a bunch of machines checking out numbers, Scott emailed me to be sure it wasn't just a bug or something. At any rate, it looks like all the LL exponents have been chewed up. Moreover, judging by the estimated time to

Re: Mersenne: Factoring bignums

1999-05-13 Thread Henrik Olsen
On Wed, 12 May 1999, Pierre Abbat wrote: Is there a program for factoring numbers up to, say, 2^128 in a reasonable time? I tried bc but it doesn't have a factor command, so I wrote a loop and it spent all its time outputting. Get Richard Crandall's giantint package, it contains factor, which

RE: Mersenne: LLL

1999-05-13 Thread Amy and Shane Sanford
Maybe there something wrong with the PrimeNet server? Earlier today I had some of my machines check in and it seemed a little wacky. Also, entropia.com seems to be pretty flacky especially the status pages. When I loaded my individual account report it went completely nuts and told me I had

Re: Mersenne: LLL

1999-05-13 Thread Alexey Khlyamkov
I don`t know what is going on, but LLL as about 6000 exponnent reserved and it`is still asking for more! If this continue for the night there should not be any exponnent available this morning. I'am so sorry for this situation. I couldn't log in to our main server for some days because my

Mersenne: Getting maximum speed out of a Linux machine

1999-05-13 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
Hello, I've compiled mprime on my own (after doing some minor changes to make it compile under glibc2), and I've noticed something strange. If I run the program with -m, and use `Test/Continue', I get an iteration time of 0.201 secs (n=7398xxx, P2/400 overclocked to 448MHz (bus=112MHz,

RE: Mersenne: LLL

1999-05-13 Thread Aaron Blosser
My disk quota on the server was overfulled in that time and mprime running on several machines which connected to main server via NFS zeroed out some setting files such as local.ini and worktodo.ini. So, every time when every machine runs mprime, it asked primenet server for new exponent

Mersenne: I am curious

1999-05-13 Thread Marc Honey
Hi everyone... I am mhoney on the prime list and am curious about something. How many of you with 10 or more machines personally would be interested in joning me if I were to form a team? I ask because I am interested in finding about 6 people with 10 or more machines that would like to join me