George Woltman wrote:
(B> Version 23.5 is available. See
(B> http://www.mersenneforum.org/viewtopic.php?t=3 for downloading links. This
(B> is a beta release, but should work OK.
(B>
(B> Speed improvements of 3 to 8% can be expected for Athlon, Duron, Pentium 3,
(B> and Celeron 2 owners.
(
Well I've recently reached my 2nd GIMPS goal of getting into the
(Btop 100 factoring. Last summer I made it to the top 1000 LL
(Btesters and then switched from double checks to factoring to
(Bmake my mark there.
(B
(BNow what to try for? :-)
(B
(BCheers... Russ
(B
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Barry Stokes wrote:
(B> Tried to get to my individual account report again, and this time was greeted
(B> with this:
(B>
(B> "Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service. "
(B>
(B> Anyone else getting the same?
(B
(BI'm not certain I got the same but yes, I too rec
I'm giving my brother's family a new computer for christmas.
(BHe'll buy it from a local (to him) 'white box' pc store and I'll
(Bpay for it. I am a little concerned about performance because
(Bthe pc will probably be running GIMPS and I'd like to get my
(Bmoney's worth. It's easy to request
Mary K. Conner wrote:
(B> You get credit for your work doing factoring even if you're not finding
(B> factors.
(B
(BHas this changed? When I joined GIMPS a couple of years ago I
(Bthough Factoring only counted when a factor was found.
(B
(BCheers... Russ
(B
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I have 3 pcs doing factoring. I have been checking my position
(Bon the Primenet Top Producers Factoring list. I have noticed my
(Bposition drifting up in the standing while I haven't found any
(Bfactors. How does happen?
(B
(BWhen I was doing double checks I would move up when I finished a
George Woltman wrote:
(B> At 02:03 AM 10/23/2002 +0000, Russel Brooks wrote:
(B> >How about a "Black List" of clients that the server will no
(B> >longer give work to? I would think the problem of pcs no longer
(B> >under your control would be an increasing pro
George Woltman wrote:
(B> You cannot stop a runaway v18 factoring client. It will get and discard
(B> assignments until it gets one below 20.5 million that is not factored to 2^64.
(B
(BHow about a "Black List" of clients that the server will no
(Blonger give work to? I would think the probl
I've seen a couple of these errors recently.
(BPrimenet assigned them to me and later says they aren't mine.
(B
(BI hope I'm not wasting my time.
(B
(BI'm running v22.8.1 under Win2k.
(B
(BCheers... Russ
(B
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I just got this error msg when my factoring machine uploaded
results and tried to get more work.
> ERROR 7: Server has run of exponents to assign
What now?
Cheers... Russ
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I'm adding a new pc running GIMPS and went to the web site where
p95v21 was available. Isn't this version a bit downlevel?
I'm running a PIII 866MHz, I'll upgrade Prime95 if a later
version is better.
Cheers... Russ
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Griffith, Shaun wrote:
> Estimates would have to consider not only the current FLOP rate, but also
> the expected growth rate of GIMPS participation,
Is a growth rate expected? Why?
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Did we just have a Synchronization?
My exponents cleared list is now only 1 exponent long.
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Am I interpreting this thread correctly? That more factoring is
needed? My climb up the LL top producers is starting to stall
so maybe it's time to switch to factoring.
I know the LL tests drive the FPU hard, what about factoring?
Cheers... Russ
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Steve Harris wrote:
> From: Russel Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >How about a Prime95 option where it makes a daily backup for you,
>
> There is already a feature which does effectively the same thing. Set
> 'InterimFiles=100' in prime.ini and it will
Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 12:47:23AM +0000, Russel Brooks wrote:
> >How about a Prime95 option where it makes a daily backup for you,
>
> Those files get _big_, unfortunately... Your HD would quite quickly fill up.
My save files are @1.5M in size. I cou
George Woltman wrote:
> ***NOTE: There is an important lesson to be learned here. All testers of
> 10M digit numbers should backup their save files regularly!! You don't want
> a hardware glitch, disk crash, etc. cause you to loose months of work.
How about a Prime95 option where it makes a da
Mary Conner wrote:
> I managed to grab a bunch of those 4.5M doublechecks that George released
> on Jan 10th. A few days ago, when my machine was about to finish up the
> second one of the batch I grabbed, the account k5gj submitted a result for
> this exponent. A little investigation showed tha
Steve Elias wrote:
> Mary, thanks for pointing out that prime95 counts cycles rather than
> wall time, so that it will not be obvious when cpu throttles back.
The latest Prime95 includes a date & time stamp for each line.
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a traitor. :-)
Does Glucas run similar to prime95? Does it get exponents from
the server, etc? Or would I have to do manual check in/out?
Cheers... Russ
Guillermo Ballester Valor wrote:
>
> On Fri 11 Jan 2002 23:58, Russel Brooks wrote:
> > How do you think GIMPS will run on the new iMac?
How do you think GIMPS will run on the new iMac?
(Or will it run at all?)
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> http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/Main.asp?SectionID=30&SubSectionID=90&ArticleID=46894
My brother is a reporter and this is a GIMPS related article he
recently wrote. I believe some of the obvious numerical errors
may have been caused by type setting problems during translation
to the web.
Chee
Philip WHITTINGTON wrote:
> If you have multiple PCs and other friends who want to join GIMPS why don't
> you just make each PC and each of your friends create their own account;
> they will still be donating as much processing power to the problem, and it
> would seem to me that this is equally b
Q1: Are there any problems running prime95 and connecting via an
AOL account?
Q2: I currently have 3 pcs and am trying to convince some friends
to also run it, if possible adding them to my account.
With multiple pcs belonging to several folks I'm wondering
if I should become a G
John R Pierce wrote:
> is *anyone* going to this dinner? I still plan to launch from Santa Cruz
Yeah, we're going but leaving from SJ; see you there!
Cheers... Russ
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I'll come to a party, anywhere in the SF Bay area, with a friend
(whose pc is 1 of my 3 Gimps machines). I'm in San Jose so
South Bay or the coast is closer but SF or North or East Bay
(probably) won't stop us.
Cheers... Russ
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Spike Jones (hey, Spike!) wrote
>
> >Lets have a Bay Area GIMPS party!
> >Same place as before? Ill have the prime rib. {8-] spike
>
> I'm game (well-seasoned venison, in fact :), but I believe
> Luke Welsh is in worker drone limbo somewhere in the
> Pacific northwest
Based on info in recent threads I upgraded from v20 to v21 on my
PIII 866MHz Win2K machine. I was already part way thru double
checking 7054693 and the change reduced my days-to-go from 8.1 to 6.0.
Nice improvement! 8xx on the Top Producers list is in sight...
Will v21 help a PII 450MHz Win98
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I mentioned that we lost about 9000 machines during the past 7 months. One
> year ago I started collecting data about numbers of machines, accounts and
> so on. Please find this information at the bottom of may mail. GIMPS has now
> as many contributing machines as it ha
I just noticed this morning that when I went to display my Quick
Stats the number field of the Factors has been dropped.
I now see:
> rlbrooks Rank 926.,92 LL Tests completed, factors found, P90...
That use to be: "..completed, 17 factors found, ..."
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John R Pierce wrote:
> I dunno, I've let about 1/2 my machines drop out, they were mostly p133 and
> below, they've been replaced with fewer much faster machines.
My P133 is still doing useful GIMPS work; just not very fast.
Cheers... Russ
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Christian Goetz wrote:
>95+% done, connecting to prime.net -> GET NEW WORK !! -> start with new
>work !
>
>This situation is really b*llsh*t,
Not BS at all; the replies to this original post have taught me
a bit about how Prime95 maximizes the resources of the client
pc, particularly those on di
mohk wrote:
> Don't worry, SETI junks million of CPU years...
Unless they actually find something.
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I've been with GIMPS for about two years and yesterday achieved
a personal milestone; I finally broke thru the 1000 barrier and
made it to 996 on the top producers list. Each step forward is
getting smaller and smaller though; I think I'm approaching the
knee of the curve and will eventually start
Lawrence Cairns-Smith wrote:
> I therefore suggest that a pay pal account (or similar) is set up. People
> who wished could easily donate a few dollars to make sure that George has
> available to him the latest architecture. I mean, come on, it wouldn't take
Sounds good to me.
While we're discus
After reading about Steve Gibsons recent problems at:
> http://grc.com/dos/grcdos.htm
I decided to install Zone Alarm on my home pc. Does anyone have
comments on any interactions with Prime95 or any other comments?
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Add a time stamp to each line of Prime95's output.
I've recently had a problem where another app was running away
and using all the extra cycles and Prime95 didn't appear to
getting ANY. Normally if things are busy the iteration time
goes up; in my case since Prime wasn't getti
George Woltman wrote:
> Although I've not run LL tests for extended periods of times,
I would have thought Prime95's author was also a big user of it.
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I'm contemplating getting a Apple, probably an IMac. I think
I've seen Gimps for the Apple, am I right? How well does an
Apple running Gimps compare to a Pentium/Win* combination?
Of sourse Gimps wouldn't be the only thing I run but I would
like to run it on any pc I have access to.
Cheers...
John R Pierce wrote:
> Virtually all GPU's in use today are fixed function hard wired graphics
> accelerators. There's no way to use them for general purpose computational
> use. Also, there's no APIs, and each chip vendor has a radically different
> architecture.
Too bad, the idea might also
> On my Win2K boxes here the "default" screen saver is a blank screen. It
> doesn't look that way when you select it, but it is. I just tested it and it
> didn't steal a single cpu cycle from Prime95.
Yeah, it doesn't look like a blank screen so I didn't try it.
Thanks for the pointers to the "De
I just up(?)graded from NT4 to Win2000. In the old NT4 screen
saver selections was a "Blank Screen" option that I used. It
would blank the screen when it locked my keyboard but it didn't
run any active screen program that would take cycles from
Prime95. Under W2K I don't have any Blank Screen op
David L. Nicol wrote:
> I imagine a better GIMPS graphical display would look like part of
> the set from "twelve monkeys" with fake big black dials and twitching
> needles, that indicate system performance and available swap space
> and so forth. It could be a cute graphical system monitor appli
I was just thinking that screen savers perform 2 functions;
1. The flashy display and
2. Locking the keyboard with a pw.
The second is more important and must be included otherwise it
will not be able to be used instead of the system lock.
Cheers... Russ
Joshua Zelinsky wrote:
> >directory of picture files and Prime would pick one to display
>
> Unfortunately, the people who care enough about their screensavers to make
> them Prime95 non-friendly are probably not going to be willing to settle for
> a few still shots. The cat idea still sounds real
Idea for a screensaver for Prime95, let the user specify a
directory of picture files and Prime would pick one to display
every few minutes. Decoding a JPG or GIF would suck up some
cycles but between picture updates Prime would get them all.
Cheers... Russ
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Jeff Woods wrote:
> Then why is SETI@home so popular, when it shows little in the way of daily
> statistics, either?
Because Space/Aliens/E.T./Sci-Fi/etc is popular and SETI lets
you participate, not just watch NASA/movies/others...
That busy colorful SETI screensaver is also pretty neat to watc
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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While I am the geek brother mentioned in the article I make no claim as
to the accuracy of the article.
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Nathan Russell wrote:
> I have noticed significantly better Prime95 times here at school than I
> did at home. On a hunch, I checked the hardware lists on the web, and I
> have what by all accounts is a software modem.
>
> Both to get the Prime95 times at home back up, and since I plan to put
> o
Brian J. Beesley wrote:
> PrimeNet credits you with CPU time if you use the automatic method to
> report the result of an assignment but not if you use the manual
> assignment form. It doesn't matter whether you got the assignment
> using the automatic method or using the manual assignment form.
Mark A. Hanning-Lee wrote:
> whenever I restart Windows95 Prime 95 runs fine for a couple of hours
> and than slows down enormously
>
> Have a look at your hard disk light! If it's on all the time, it's
> swapping. Maybe Prime95 happens to take more memory under Win95?
>
> Or other processes are d
Henk Stokhorst wrote:
> whenever I restart Windows95 Prime 95 runs fine for a couple of hours
> and than slows down enormously. The machine is usually
My friend's Win98 machine does the same thing. She went on vacation for
a week and when she returned a factoring iteration that use to take
about
Henk Stokhorst wrote:
> Russel Brooks wrote:
> > Near the bottom of http://mersenne.org/ips/tops.shtml
> > is a "Browser Quick Stats Tip" that is...
> > http://mersenne.org/cgi-bin/primenet_user.pl?UserID=youraccountID
> >
> > When I use this link, af
Near the bottom of http://mersenne.org/ips/tops.shtml
is a "Browser Quick Stats Tip" that is...
http://mersenne.org/cgi-bin/primenet_user.pl?UserID=youraccountID
When I use this link, after replacing my account id, I consistently get
a blank page returned. This problem started happening about th
http://mersenne.org/ips/tops.shtml
How come my id can be a link to my url in the Top Primality Test
Producers Awards list, but not in the Top Factoring Producers Awards
list?
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George Woltman wrote:
> >There used to be an option in Test->Primenet to force a connection.
>
> It was moved to Advanced / Manual Communication.
Thanks everyone, I am guilty as charged; I did not read the Whatsnew.
I'm not sure why this action deserves to be "Advanced" and require the
password
There used to be an option in Test->Primenet to force a connection.
In version 20 this is gone and I miss it. I often dial in for just a
couple of minutes. I would like to connect to primenet or Prime95 is
already trying, but I may not be connected long enough to use Prime95's
periodic connect at
I saw it too a couple of days ago but it was gone when I tried again a
couple of hours later.
cheers... Russ
Peter Owen wrote:
> Is there a problem with the PrimeNet Server? I keep getting the following
> message when prime95 tries to contact the server.
>
> Contacting PrimeNet Server.
> ERROR
What's with the Top Producers reports at Entropia.com?
I keep getting 404s for the last couple of days.
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John R Pierce wrote:
> yeah, ugh. Well, the system came with 256MB of PC133 ECC registered SDRAM
> (2 * 128MB), I've fortified it with an additional 1GB of PC133 ECC
> registered SDRAM (4 * 256MB). I would *hope* any memory error would trip a
> ECC error.
I thought ECC memory was supposed to Co
I just met a personal GIMPS objective; I just broke into the top 2000
(I'm #1993 at the moment). I only started last fall. The last couple
of jumps up the ladder have been getting smaller and smaller so I'm not
confident of ever making the top 1000.
Cheers... Russaka:"rlbrooks"
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How do I quit a pc from GIMPS after the current piece of work finishes
(without getting any more work).
I tried setting Test->PrimeNet->"Always have this many days of work
queued up:" to Zero, but One is as low as it allows.
cheers... Russ
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Spike Jones wrote:
> play, there might be some very good reasons to *not* show up
> in the top contributors list. In fact, the someone who organized
What might those reasons be?
Curious...
Russ
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I have an old 486 pc running dos and mostly doing nothing all day long.
Is there anything this machine can do to contribute to GIMPS without
waiting months and months for any results?
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I've got another odd, Prime95 related, problem on 1 of the 3 pcs I'm
running GIMPS on. The machine is a 450MHz PII with 256Meg running win98
and nothing else 99.9% of the time. It is doing double checking of
exponent 4777027. It starts off with an iteration time of about .13
seconds. After abou
Do ALL exponents get Double-Checked? ...or are only selected exponents
done beecause the original LL run was suspect?
Just curious,
Russ
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under Win98. I'm seeing minor interference on the display when Prime is
running. If I stop Prime the interference stops. Not much else is
running 99% of the time so it's an ideal GIMPS machine but I'm bothered
by the affect
I'm looking at rhe Aasigned Exponent Report for the first time.
It says it's 5 Feb 2000 23:02 (5 Feb 2000 4.02pm Pacific).
The 23:02 is ok for UTC time but the local time should be 3:02pm for
Pacific.
Cheers... Russ
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Let me give you the 'newbie' point of view to all this.
I've only been part of GIMPS for a couple of months. It looked like
something fun to do, useful for science, etc. and a good way to burn off
those spare cycles that keep building up. :-)
Here I thought I was part of some great cause and we
My pc just surprised me by deciding to do a self test after it finished
its latest piece of work.
> The program will now perform a self-tesst to make sure the
> Lucas-Lehmer code is working properly on your computer.
I thought the test was only performed when you first started doing GIMPS
proc
What is a 'Primenet error 12031'? I get it when attempting to contact
the PrimeNet Server after dialing into my ISP. The error msg says to
see the FAQ but it doesn't list this error message.
The error doesn't happen all the time but I have seen it more than once.
cheers... Russ
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