"Steinar H. Gunderson" wrote:
> Funny, my 800 usually reboots frequently while torture testing, even on `only'
> 880MHz... 800 is rock stable, though. (Non-DDR, though...)
>
> /* Steinar */
For a good discussion of overclocking, and the many factors involved, see:
http://www.gamepc.com/article/
"Willmore, David (VS Central)" wrote:
> Hello, all.
>
> I'm curious if anyone has any preliminary performance figures for Athlon
> processors on the new crop of DDR MBs. If noone has any data, I guess I'll
> have to go out and buy one. :)
>
DDR MB memory aside, Athlon T-Bird info, smackdowns an
Question:
>From a number theoretic point of view, does the
likelihood of small (52 through 59 bits) factors increase
with exponent size?
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"Robert G. Wilson v" wrote:
> Et al,
>
> I did and deleted it. Do you need it for any reason? Bob.
>
> Stefan Struiker wrote:
>
> > To All:
> >
> > Got a strange (Japanese or Russian?) email from
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECT
To All:
Got a strange (Japanese or Russian?) email from
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
through mersenne-outgoing. Anyone else get it
but in legible form?
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> Try the new Asus CUSL2. From all reports, this is a winner. Said i815
> chipset, uses PC133 SDRAM. 6 PCI slots, no ISA slots. has AGP Pro 4X (the
> kind that actually works correctly in 4X mode with advanced graphics cards
> like the Geforce family), unlike the VIA stuff). The chipset has
Presarioers, et al:
On 07July00 I noted:
"On several Athlon machines, from 750MHz to 1000MHz, P95 takes
about the same number of clocks per iteration doing a factoring assignment,
in the present case 4.75 billion. The Compaq 7998 settles at 5.28 billion
for the same task, but can be driven down
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Another enhancement would be to add the functionality to force a checkin
> with the server. Currently I have found the only way to do this is to alter
> the number of hours per day field.
>
> This is fairly minor compared to the problem of duplicated effort mentioned
>
ot upset when the original person suddenly completed
his LL test.
Wouldn't it be more 'humane' to wait a bit (i.e., to not 'expire'
assignments after 70 days) ? Will the project truly suffer if
"seemingly abandoned" exponents are NOT reassigned on a 'treadmill'
schedule ?
mikus
For those un
Meanwhile, back at 866 MHz and the Auto RAMBUS setting of
400 MHz, the "improvement" and time-travel vanished.
Overclocking can be a Very Bad Thing, sneaking past the OS and
other checks and balances to give --- The Wrong Answer.
Ouch.
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Good Monday Morning!
Wound up the weekend with a very special (relativistic?) phenomenon.
Finishing up a factoring assignment, about 88% through the 65-bit
stretch, I had reason to shut down W98 all the way to power off.
Up came the system again at 92% complete, not 88%. Another orderly
shut-d
Windows 95/98 Utilities, "The Movie," (well, almost) can be found at:
http://winfiles.cnet.com/apps/98/system-analyze.html
My favorite for snooping out, killing and/or resetting priority of processes, services
and anything else that may be lurking in the grass, is Process Viewer 2000, at:
http:
Hi All:
On several Athlon machines, from 750MHz to 1000MHz, P95 takes
about the same number of clocks per iteration doing a factoring assignment,
in the present case 4.75 billion. The Compaq 7998 settles at 5.28 billion
for the same task, but can be driven down to 4.75 briefly by re-booting,
run
To start a supercomputer company it only takes two brothers - Swiss
Dalco delivers 500 processor system to ETH Zuerich
--
The ETH Zuerich has installed a large Linux cluster that will be expanded
later this month to 500 process
Zdrastie!
Where would I look to find 65-bit factors found during "Factor=" Trial
Factoring? I see that P-1 Factoring has turned up some absolute whoppers!
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Bon Weekend, All!
I noticed several factoring assignments, in the M13.4 mill range,
where factoring was taken to only 64 bits, but not to 65, as would be
done on a "fresh" candidate. Are these die-hards from the early daze
when machines were wicked slower? Or is there another explanation?
Best
That must be 42 degrees Celsius..could you explain where the
temp is being read?
Michael Bell wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Soory to be a little off topic, can somebody tell me how hot a motherboard
> should be running? I have a Celeron 466 and an ASUS P2B-B. It claims to be
> 42 degrees after some days of
Zdrasti!:
Anyone current on the relationship between GIMPS and the
Electronic Frontier Foundation? I just received a request for
membership renewal.
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Good link on that monster and to the AMD KLAT2 cluster (how I wish
my room looked and worked) can be found at:
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2167700.html?tag=st.ne.1002.bgif.ni
Adding 297,000 more machines to the project would be an alternative...
Purple With Nefarious Purpose,
Stefanov
Hi All:
What is a "synchronization" and where can I find out more
about it?
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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, after replacing my account id, I consistently
get
> a blan
Reto:
First question: goto
http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~kruppa/f98/
for factor98.exe download and info.
Anyone else for the other questions?
Best Wishes,
Stefanovic, ETH during 63-64
Reto Keiser wrote:
> Hi all
>
> factor98:
>
> Where can I find the p-1 tool factor98.exe? As far a
TeamG:
Trying to start a PrimeHunt on a Linux box, but can't find the Gnome
switch/requeste(o)r to get the screen resolution down enough so I can read without
a microscope. Can anyone help? Am running Redhat 6.1 with a VooDoo
3500 GFX card.
So until last year I thought Linux was a cartoon ch
TeamG:
When a requested factoring assignment is listed with, say, 52 in an account log,
does this mean it has been factored to 52 bits, but _without_ success?
Or could a factor have already been found in some cases, but less than
52 bits long?
My strategy in factoring 13.3 mill exponents and u
TeamG:
With first-time L-L checking sliding toward a lunar month on an "old" 1GHz Athlon,
we wonder how the Willamette and Itanium might further The Cause. Anyone
have guessimates on the numbers for these two, say at 1GHz?
Who, Me In A Hurry?
Stefanovic
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To All:
Now that manual check-in is finally working, PrimeNet check-in
seems broken. I decided to send in factor data manually, which was accepted,
but noticed that the v19/v20 designation in my account report vanished for the
machine in question -- throughout.
Any news or info would be appreci
I need help in understanding this post!
Thanks And Best Wishes,
Stefanovic
Yvan Dutil wrote:
> A list a very couragous guy.
>
> 5362403 D 62 4756266 711.6 -11.8 31.2 15-Apr-00 19:32 04-Jul-98
> 00:30 tp68spa
> 5447983 D 62 4948807 697.8 -41.8 18.3 11-Apr-00 21:52 17-Jul-98
>
TeamG:
Love factoring on a fast machine because turnaround is zippy,
and I actually get a result to crow about every 5 or so attempts.
Factoring assignments are assigned, it seems, by PrimeNet only
by that Mystery Algorithm, which I would dearly love to override,
in order to get a 10,000,000 dig
To All:
Once a factor has been logged for an M-candidate, either by P-1
or by "the other" method, what M-happens? Is a different sort
of double-checking automatically done?
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Same thing happens to me on "Release Exponents." Needs to
be fixed. :-(
Best Wishes,
Stefanovic
Siegmar Szlavik wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I try to check in some results but I always get this
> error message... It says I should try it in a few moments,
> but I get this message now since 4-5 days :(
TWIMC:
Is a single Double Check always enough to retire an exponent?
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"Willmore, David (VS Central)" wrote:
> I only DC with my Alphas--heck, I only have *two* machines (out of 8) doing
> first time LL. :) Don't get me wrong, I'd like to find a new mersenne
> prime, but I feel the DCs are underrated in importance. And since this
> project is 'vote with your CPU
To All:
In the server transition, the Manual Testing Forms still
seem to be broken. Can't UNreserve exponents, for example.
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To All:
Monday, June 5th, is Athlon Thunderbird time. Any estimates or
inside info on the improvement that the full-speed on-chip 256K
L2 cache will bring?
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Will the PrimeNet and Mersenne sites be down for the weekend?
Shunning The Blazing Sun,
John Donne
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To All:
I'm running a 533MHz Celeron in a low-end eMachines box, DCing
a 53xxyyy-exponent Mersenne candidate. By using the utilities RCache and
PV2000, I can knock the number of clocks/iter below 82,300,000. When I
achieve this minor miracle, however, the disk light begins to pulse about twice
George Woltman wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Congratulations to all GIMPS members on achieving another
> milestone! Today, double-checking has proved that M(2976221)
> and M(3021377) are the 36th and 37th Mersenne primes.
>
> Keep up the good work!
> George
How many DDs does it take to "reas
TeamM:
Benchmarx for L-L testing now are legion (love that Athlon 700 overclocked to 1000! ).
But how do the machines stack up in straight-shot factoring? Can we draw any
reliable conclusions from the published L-L numbers?
O Server Speak To Me Again Tomorrow...
Best Regards,
Stefanovic
In case you haven't already heard
On Monday 5/15, SGI released their IA-64 Linux compiler to the open
source community.
In addition, today, Red Hat released their first IA-64 Linux
distribution to developers.
Go to http://www.ia64linux.org to get the links to these releases!
- The IA-6
Is there any difference between the Prime95 Beta 20.4.1 and the current V20 release?
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Nathan Russell wrote:
> >What machine are you running? What configuration?
>
> Coppermine P3-600, 128 megs RAM, Prime95 public v20, Win98 second edition.
What else could be different but the disking? Problem the program authors might
address,
if this is truly an ECM-triggered "reproducible
Nathan Russell wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> While running ECM on this exponent I have noticed a throbbing sound,
> somewhat similiar to a ceramic plate being spun on a hard surface; this
> differs from the usual continuous hum of running an LL test. I have read
> the FAQ entries relating to noise, but
TeamG:
I notice a small but increasing number in the iteration count column
of my current factoring assignment. The exponent is 12,xxx,yyy,zzz
and I am using beta 20.4.1 What does this value signify?
Thanks!
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and the Entropia Home page displays. Never knew I'd miss the weekend
stats so much.
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Kevin Sexton wrote:
George Woltman wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I sent this a few
days ago, but it seems to have gotten lost...
>
> In my new benchmarking
page I'd like to create a form that
> takes CPU type, CPU speed, and exponent and returns the estimated
> number of days to complete t
Curiouser and curiouser:
Working on nearly the same exponent, 9.7 million, I notice that
our PIII 500 takes only 119.5 million clocks per iteration, whereas
our 733EB requires 124.8 million to do the same.
The 500 has 512K 1/2 speed off-chip cache and runs 128MB of SDRAM, with a 100MHz bus
and w
If I had added the 1 Gig, and it wouldn't play I'd pull it.
Sounds so gorgeous otherwise, it's just got to fly...arghhh.
John R Pierce wrote:
> Stefanovic asks...
> > Fascinating (for me). How much memory do you have, and what is each
> > XEON cache size? And (pleading ignorance) what OS are yo
Fascinating (for me). How much memory do you have, and what is each
XEON cache size? And (pleading ignorance) what OS are you running?
Best Regards,
Stefanovic
John R Pierce wrote:
> Ugh. I think I mentioned I had a new PowerEdge 4400 server in my labs with
> dual 600MHz P3-XEON coppermines
Nathan Russell wrote:
all the ones I named were previous efforts) have
found. I hope this doesn't
start /another/ onlist flamewar... (sigh)
>I'm much more excited about gimps, and believe that I am much more
>likely to find a certain Mersenne prime than evidence about
>extra-terrestrial lif
Our machines are getting faster, wider, better. Itanium! Williamette!
On to victory! And someone is going to find that double-time code
breakthrough to get us all there at twice the speed.
Where is Alan Turing when we really need him?!
Stefanovic
Frank_A_L_I_N_Y wrote:
> what aobut the fact th
TeamM:
I will be more detailed later, once I collect and refine my thoughts, but at
this point let me say that I think it is the group attracted to SETI, and the
Area 51, uh, "enthusiasts," who need some work, not the MPrime interface.
More to come,
Regards,
Stefanovic
Geoffrey Faivre-Malloy w
TeamG:
For some of the latest of the latest on QC, see the link:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,35121,00.html
There is also the book THE FEYNMAN PROCESSOR, in paperback,
by G.J. Milburn, for an overview.
Regards,
Stefanovic
Ken Kriesel wrote:
>
> Could someone post the actual wording of the conjecture?
>
> Ken
>
Ken:
For Goldbach's Conjecture, including a facsimile (in German) of his
famous letter to Euler, go to:
http://www.informatik.uni-giessen.de/staff/richstein/ca/Goldbach.html
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TWIMC:
It's possible to download V20.1.1 ( or anything else) to
the wrong directory, missing the whole point of an update process.
Re-running the setup program with the correct target directory solves
the problem, except that you've re-registered as an apparently new account
even though accountna
$1 million math challenge issued
Publishers seek solution to prime-number conundrum
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON , March 17 Two publishers are offering a
million dollars to anyon
TeamG:
Am looking for a detailed, step-by-step walk-through of the P-1
factoring process. Any suggestions?
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PixelFusion Verifies 76 Million-Transistor Chip Using Mentor Graphics Deep Submicron
Tools
BRISTOL, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 15, 2000--Mentor Graphics Corp. today
announced that PixelFusion, Ltd., has adopted and successfully deployed a
comprehensive set of
deep submicron (DSM) Ment
TWIMC:
Spec Int and Spec Fp comparison (CPU)
Posted By johan
Friday, March 10, 2000 - 1:28:01 PM
Idiot found a huge spec benchmark fest here ! The German "Mac Info" compares
the G4, the Athlon 550-1000, the PIII, the PII, the
Alpha 21264 based on a
TWIMC:
Anyone know where I can find WinBench 99/FPU WinMark data for the
daisy-fresh 1GHz AMD, perhaps as interpreted by Compaq Productions?
TNX And Best Regards,
Ethan O'Connor wrote:
> Having woken up too early this morning, I put the numbers
> available at http://www.mersenne.org/bench.htm into an Excel
> worksheet and very briefly played with them. The worksheet is
> available at http://web.mit.edu/zudark/www/MersenneSpeeds.xls
I find the Athlon 500
Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> Okay, I was sitting there the other day thinking about a non-FFT squaring
I can't find any flaw. I have lost track of any comments on this by the Prime95
coders,
and am curious what they have to say. Could be a time-saved criterion, because the
MOD is
taken automati
Team M:
Is it better to have 10 pins at 500MHz with one or two angels dancing,
or one 5GHz behemoth looking for luck, given the way PrimeNet
assigns exponents?
Mixing Metaphors,
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Olivier Langlois wrote:
> Is this story really ??
> Where is going our society ?? :-)
>
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On
> Behalf Of Blu
> Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 12:44 PM
> To: Protected Mode List
> Subject: OT: what do you think abou
Team M:
Does the L-L process lend itself to some parallelization
(not the running of multiple copies) over N processors?
I have a short monograph on Amdahl's Law to squeeze out,
and I thought I might use L-L as an example, bad or good.
Best To All,
Team M:
Has there been a reported run of MPrime on a PII/PIII XEON with at least 1M cache?
If so what, if any, was the improvement?
Regards,
Stefan S.
M-Team:
With 2 weeks dedicated access to a PIII 500/64M, what OS, running Prime??,
would you choose to best M-prime away that time?
Such Dreams,
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M-Team:
With 2 weeks dedicated access to a PII600/64M, what OS/Prime??
mix would you choose to best M-prime away that time?
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Would increasing PIII (500MHz) memory from 128M to 256M improve
L-L performance? Current exponent being tested is in range 9,xxx,xxx.
Insatiable,
Stefan S.
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Does the "official" Y2K retrofit cover rollover from to 1?
Tick, tick,
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M&Ms:
Am looking for FAQs on factoring, and on the algorithm in particular.
Is there life after 2^64?
Awaiting The Mersennium,
Stefan S
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Haven't received any forwards since Friday Oct. 29th...
MersennnialMadMan,
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