Re: Mersenne: Torture test allocating hundreds of MB?

2002-10-30 Thread Brian J. Beesley
On Wednesday 30 October 2002 02:34, Nathan Russell wrote: Thanks to everyone who responded. In this case, it's a bug in my thinking. I had the memory usage set to the max allowable, because I wanted P-1 to succeed whenever possible, even if it inconvenienced me - I do most of my academic

Re: Mersenne: Dissed again

2002-10-30 Thread Richard Woods
Let's not be _too_ eager to emulate SETIhome's popularity and user-friendliness -- http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/security/story/0,224985,20269509,00 .htm Cheats wreak havoc on SETIhome: participants SETIhome administrators are allegedly ignoring claims that the project is being sabotaged

RE: Mersenne: Modularising Prime95/mprime - a path to broader development.

2002-10-30 Thread Jacek Kolonko
Hi, Wouldn't it be great if from some point in the near future, feature request posts to this newsgroup became more like I've written a fancy improved frontend to GIMPS with some cool graphics, see this link for more info, Actually that happened Sunday! Would you please give some

Mersenne: V22.10 and Win2K

2002-10-30 Thread Stephan Grupp
This is what the whatsnew.txt file has to say about starting at bootup: On a Windows NT/2000/XP system, if prime95 is run by a user without administrator privileges then prime95 cannot install itself as a service. Thus, the Start at Bootup option will set prime95 to run at login time

Re: Mersenne: Dissed again

2002-10-30 Thread Gareth Randall
Yeah, I noticed that one of their top 100 users has an average work unit time of less than 30 minutes. Compare that to the ~22 hours I'm getting for a PII 450Mhz, and the SGI team's average of over 6 hours even though they're running on just about the most powerful (and sadly, most expensive

Re: Mersenne: Modularising Prime95/mprime - a path to broader development.

2002-10-30 Thread Gareth Randall
Dear Brian, Could you please expand upon how this secure certificate concept would work, for the benefit of myself and the list? Unless there is more to it than I currently comprehend, this only authenticates results as coming from specific users, rather than authenticating that the result is