Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
Early GIMPS and the other project (Slowinski/Cray) had
no common agreement or method for avoiding duplication.
Umm, I've not been in this project _that_ long, but at
least a year or two before Primenet got integrated into
the main client. At least at that time,
Nathan Russell wrote:
Okay, to start with, GIMPS lost the very first prime we ever found
to a member of another project who beat George to finding the
exponent by a matter of hours. This is simply the way math and other
fields of research work. Darwin's theory of evolution was very
nearly
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 03:38:14AM -0500, Richard Woods wrote:
The cases of conflict you cite had no such method for avoiding
duplication/overlap. Early GIMPS and the other project
(Slowinski/Cray) had no common agreement or method for avoiding
duplication.
Umm, I've not been in this project
Increasing the difficulty for a poacher to _find_ a tempting target
would mean other participants could be less concerned about making
themselves into such a target, and just concentrate on doing the work
they considered most suitable within the rules.
If the rules you are referring to
At 09:50 AM 1/25/03 -0600, Shane Sanford wrote:
Increasing the difficulty for a poacher to _find_ a tempting
target would mean other participants could be less concerned
about making themselves into such a target, and just
concentrate on doing the work they considered most suitable
within the
Okay, to start with, GIMPS lost the very first prime we ever found to a
member of another project who beat George to finding the exponent by a
matter of hours. This is simply the way math and other fields of research
work. Darwin's theory of evolution was very nearly duplicated by another
