Mersenne: Re: Factoring benefit/cost ratio

2001-11-30 Thread Steve Harris
Actually, Richard's statement that a 'Factored' status is better for GIMPS than a 'Two LL' status is not quite true. It's better for the mathematical community as a whole, but not for GIMPS. GIMPS is looking for primes, not factors, and without skipping over any. This means all candidates must be

Mersenne: Re: need access to an SGI

2001-11-30 Thread EWMAYER
Thomas Ritschel has been kind enough to build binaries of Mlucas 2.7c for me. Now I need some guinea pigs, er, I mean, beta testers. Thomas has built both 32-bit and 64-bit executables and verified that they run and done timings on the R1 and R12000 systems he has access to. These are all

Mersenne: I have a RISC/6000 with AIX 3.1 installed

2001-11-30 Thread Torben Schlntz
This might run anything; but I'm probably to stupid to manage to set up anything on it. :-/ Can anyone use this machine as is for any purpose related offcourse to primechruncing? br tsc _ Unsubscribe list info --