Re: Mersenne: The recent popularity of Single-Checking

2000-05-25 Thread Vincent J. Mooney Jr.
Cheers to you Mikus. I second you wholeheartedly. At 11:51 AM 5/24/00 -0500, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: ... some snipping Since when has this project become a competitive event ? This mailing list has gotten several messages like the one above, which I interpret as comparing

Mersenne: The recent popularity of Single-Checking

2000-05-24 Thread Nathan Russell
Hi all, There is a user, "sd70045", who has almost 100 single-checkingassignments out on a single machine ID. These would take a state-of-the-art box well over two years to finish. Additionally, these assignments have almost identical figures for time to complete etc. The first exponent in

Re: Mersenne: The recent popularity of Single-Checking

2000-05-24 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
There is a user, "___", who has almost 100 single-checkingassignments out on a single machine ID. These would take a state-of-the-art box well over two years to finish. Additionally, these assignments have almost identical figures for time to complete etc. The first exponent in this

Re: Mersenne: The recent popularity of Single-Checking

2000-05-24 Thread Eric Hahn
Nathan Russell wrote: There is a user, "sd70045", who has almost 100 single-checking assignments out on a single machine ID. These would take a state-of-the-art box well over two years to finish. Additionally, these assignments have almost identical figures for time to complete etc. The first

Re: Mersenne: The recent popularity of Single-Checking

2000-05-24 Thread Chris Jefferson
Nathan Russell wrote: There is a user, "sd70045", who has almost 100 single-checking assignments out on a single machine ID In any case, these exponents will expire in 16 days. As a result, I'm not concerned about it. Within 3 weeks they'll be re-circulated among other users.