Re: Mersenne: errors

2000-05-27 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 07:45:50PM -0600, Aaron Blosser wrote: Now...my Pentium III 600's are kicking butt at LL testing... Actually, the P6 family is better at factoring than LL testing, compared to the vanilla Pentium... But we couldn't set all the PIIs and PIIIs to do factoring either -- we

Mersenne: Errors

2000-05-26 Thread Nathan Russell
Hi everyone, George contacted me and stated that he was unable to recreate the error and suspects that it was a one-time fluke; he wants me to let him know if it recurs. This is the first error I have had on the machine, so I am not concerned. Thanks to all who gave advice. Nathan P.S. I

Mersenne: errors

2000-05-25 Thread Ian L McLoughlin
Hi, I appear to be getting error messages of 'input equalling output' every 4 or so days... O.K. its only a Cyrix 333...does this invalidate results? Should I switch to SETI? :) Regards, Ian (U.K.) BTW it took me 9 months to do 9763841 LL!!!

RE: Mersenne: errors

2000-05-25 Thread Aaron Blosser
O.K. its only a Cyrix 333...does this invalidate results? Should I switch to SETI? :) BTW it took me 9 months to do 9763841 LL!!! The Cyrix probably has the worst FPU of any x86 clone... I had a Cyrix 300 running and I quickly realized that it's good for factoring and that was about it. I've

Re: Mersenne: Errors in previous results

1999-03-07 Thread poke
We should be worried because the statistical chance of error is never 0%. No matter what the odds are, EVENTUALLY it will tip out of our favor. -Chuck On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Gordon Spence wrote: There has been speculation on the list recently about the chances of finding previous errors and

Re: Mersenne: Errors

1999-01-11 Thread George Woltman
Hi, At 01:21 PM 1/10/99 +0100, Ignacio Larrosa CaƱestro wrote: I get the next lines in a results.txt file: Iteration: 485/6404297, ERROR: ILLEGAL SUMOUT UID: ILC/P166-Casa, M6404297 is not prime. Res64: F06542B838248F__. WT1: 1F13B5C4,403638, It's correct? Must not be

Mersenne: Errors

1999-01-10 Thread Ignacio Larrosa CaƱestro
Hi all, I get the next lines in a results.txt file: [Wed Dec 30 01:32:28 1998] Iteration: 485/6404297, ERROR: ILLEGAL SUMOUT Possible hardware failure, consult the readme file. Continuing from last save file. [Sun Jan 10 08:33:12 1999] UID: