Re: Mersenne: AMD XP 1600+

2001-11-20 Thread mohk
I think it is better to use the P4 setting (if you can) because you have the advantage of the SSE and the faster FPU 8) Greets, Mohk PS: It should be easy to hack the code to enable the P4 setting, just skip the CPU detection ;) At 01:54 11/21/2001, you wrote: >Hi Folks, > >I l

Re: Mersenne: P-1

2001-07-28 Thread mohk
On a 1200 TBird it tooks 196 days to LL 33309379. Hope that will show you : it's all right :) Christian >You caught me, it was a PrimeNet assigned 33 million exponent which is a >_10_ million digit Mersenne - what's a zero between friends? :) > >I am in so much trouble. For the first two we

Re: Mersenne: scientific american

2001-07-22 Thread mohk
LOL ;) Are we alone? 1) no, we found something 2) dunno :) I guess searching a needle in a haystack is less complicated. At 16:10 22.07.2001, you wrote: >mohk wrote: > > Don't worry, SETI junks million of CPU years... > >Unless they actually find somethin

Re: Mersenne: scientific american

2001-07-22 Thread mohk
The reason is quiet simple: SETI is successful and GIMPS is not. Don't worry, SETI junks million of CPU years while GIMPS solve complex math. problems (8 >Yes the article does go into great detail re Beowulf clusters, but the >penultimate paragraph contains: > >"An equally important trend is th

Re: Mersenne: Good news for Pentium 3 and Celeron 2 owners

2001-06-18 Thread mohk
At 03:26 18.06.2001, you wrote: >Hi all, > > Now the bad news. The Athlon also supports these memory prefetch >instructions but the one user who tried it reported no gain. Also, the new >executable may also be slightly slower on the P-II and Celeron 1 as it must >ignore these prefetch in

Re: Mersenne: Pentium 4 owners - pre-beta prime95 release available

2001-05-13 Thread mohk
If you do not own a P4, then DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS VERSION. >It contains no new features and your results will be marked invalid if we >later discover a bug in this code. Don't you say, this code enhances the Athlon as well? regards, Mohk _

Re: Mersenne: missing exponents?

2001-05-12 Thread mohk
;be informed about that by Entropia or George. > >Regards >Achim > >PS: sorry that my last mail was HTML, hope that this is pure ASCII >again. You should use another MailClient as Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 8) Didn't you read all the bad th

Re: Mersenne: Getting new GIMPSers

2001-03-25 Thread mohk
Hmm ... my comp has NO idle time anymore (8 At 10:08 PM 3/11/2002, you wrote: >see http://www.freechess.org/ for a way to attract GIMPS members. > >Freechess.org RC5 cracking team > >Is your computer doing all it can? Do you have idle CPU cycles laying >around that aren't doing anything for you?

Re: Mersenne: idea for a new prime95 version

2001-02-02 Thread mohk
Hi, again :) At 06:03 PM 02.02.01, you wrote: >Hi there mohk. > >I've soon been with the project for 2.5 years and there has always been a >choice to set if you want primenet to choose a job for you or if you want to >do LL, doublechecking or factoring. v19? added the option

Mersenne: idea for a new prime95 version

2001-02-02 Thread mohk
72593) very fast (even faster than a some old pentiums). i have an tbird 800, and so i will get LLOne tests always. i could set another lame proc in the settings, but it isnt really the same. i'd be pleased to see in the next version a dialog where i can choose the test i wanna do. rega