that? :-)
Robin Stevens wrote:
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 10:11:08AM -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
I can't even raise the mersenne website. getting errors on
entropia.com/ips too, yet entropia.com's home page comes up fine.
traceroute shows a nice loop:
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are alerted to, and can contribute to, important topics discussd
on the GIMPS Forum and are informed of important announcements/decisions
posted on the Forum?
[Sent this earlier but it didn't get through... Sending again]
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of the Linux 2.4 kernels.
We hadda install Solaris on the box to do what we wanted to.
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and although the standard boot mode would let me have up to 2G of VM, system DLLs were loaded somewhere near the 1G region, thereby fragmenting memory. Booting with /3gb placed the OS well out of the way and let me have the space I needed.
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cool and reliable!
Nathan Russell wrote:
I'll delete all my selftestNpassed lines, just to be on the safe side,
but I really think the issue was a heat issue, which is now gone.
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machine. One headline at www.sjmercury.com reads
actually, he's using MY server which is at my home in Santa Cruz, and in
fact our power was out for about 3 hours today... my server's UPS died
after 1 hours. all back up now.
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Richard Woods
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certificate, all results submitted would be traceable to the
individual user. This scheme would also make it possible for other clients to
use the automatic server interface, instead of having to rely on the manual
forms ( not getting PrimeNet credit for work completed).
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to run their own personalised frontends might
give GIMPS the tangible advantage over other distributed projects that many
readers would so like to find.
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. Our output goes up ONLY
because most of our members upgrade as CPUs get better and cheaper.
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permitting work to continue for another few weeks (or months) that is
likely fruitless?
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, in which such
applications can be exploited to give total system compromise.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26561.html
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I'm still using NTPrime on my dual CPU machines... Any chance of
getting prime95 to honor the service name settings in the local.ini file
just like ntprime did?
Already coded and tested. Look for the fix next time I upload a new
prime95
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that M11941547 has 9833383992510866143 as a factor. Well,
now it has worked enough. In its place I have added a shiny new 2 GHz
Pentium 4. Quite a change I may say...
Cheers!
-- Johan Winge
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documentation
online. I have compiled many apps over the years. Am I missing something obvious?
Can anyone post a quick set of commands to compile the binary? Perhaps
instructions can also be posted on the source file download page.
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a waste - at least a CPU can do something
more useful than providing visual entertainment for the spiders.
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not very picturesque. Someone here
must be able to beat that :-)
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to the server.
YotN,
Henk Stokhorst
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looking to save a bit of space when testing large exponents.
Especially if you save interim files or have 2 saved files... the space
savings would add up quickly.
Aaron
[snip]
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but at the moment it appears to be:
1. If default route not present, give error.
Presumably most users with several machines will have encountered this?
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to Primenet, is to connect to AOL using my modem.
This problem occurs when reporting results, getting new exponents
and reporting expected completion dates.
Any suggestions? I can give more details if needed.
Irv Rosenfeld
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presume the -c method is the current accepted way of doing it.
However, my suggestion of being able to run an arbitrary program has obviously now
been heard by those who matter, so we can now wait to see whether such a feature
appears in the next version/release.
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of these are noted in the -d output,
this should be very simple to code in.
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will not compete head-on with ordinary apps which are mostly or
entirely integer.
The following article explained SMT (on the proposed Alpha EV8) for me:
http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?ArticleID=RWT1226
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someone else
can try this! :-(
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even compile without change (he says). Consequently
the only questionable part is whether the assembly code is sufficiently OS independent.
Would anyone be interested in giving this a try?
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execution paths.
Alpha recently got canned by compaq, so the above may never happen.
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of WINTOP, the memory usage program. Also, what is the site for the archives
of this list.
Please answer this directly to me.
Thanks
Irv Rosenfeld
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no-one has discovered?
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Is there a well-known semi-official repository for such programs, or would anyone
like to start one?
Maybe someone has an FTP server which is going to be around for a long time that they
can offer an account on?
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However, if someone could implement it, it could provide the *ultimate* in Mersenne
related screen savers! What you'd see on the screen would be the actual calculations
themselves taking place before your eyes, and with no overheads for displaying it
either!
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re concerned can use the following:
su mprime -c "sleep 120; $PRIME_BIN_FILE -d $PRIME_LOG_FILE "
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a plain "sleep
120;" to allow the CPU to warm up slowly before the intense calculations begin.
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readed, oh and it's a lot simpler to program!)
(Note: My prime95 was replaced by mprime on Linux 6 months ago. If anyone was
wondering about file format compatibility, I found that the prime95 file format is
directly compatible with mprime.)
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prime (v20), the problem goes away -- the computer
doesn't reboot, at least not the 36 hours I tested. After I start
mprime, it reboots in just a couple of minutes now.
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ct their preferred screensaver,
and avoids introducing extra development complications.
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. Imagine the possible data corruption.
I wonder if GIMPS throughput will be noticeably reduced due to
California's power problems? Either by people shutting their pcs off or
being knocked off when hit by a rolling blackout?
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e than one with no errors at all.
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"mprime" prime factoring program.
#
# Version: 1.1 11-Nov-2000 Gareth Randall
#
PRIME_BIN_FILE=/home/gareth/mprime/mprime
PRIME_LOG_FILE=/home/gareth/mprime/log/mprime.log
DESC="prime factoring program"
NAME=mprime
if !(test -f $PRIME_BIN_FILE) ; then
echo
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