Re: Mersenne: P-1 Credit
Hi Eric, Eric Hahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Terry S. Arnold wrote: Does anyone have any skinny on when we will start getting credit for 1. doing P-1 testing? 2. finding a factor during P-1 testing? AFAIK, from what George has said, credit will eventually be given after BOTH v21 comes out, and the Scott has time to do some modifications to the PrimeNet server... Time Frame? ...??... Changes to support this are being designed. Mostly we needed to first get the next-generation Entropia network deployed to support v21 and other applications. This has been happening for a while now, so we will be resuming a focus on GIMPS soon. Regards, scott kurowski Entropia, Inc. _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.exu.ilstu.edu/mersenne/faq-mers.txt
Re: Mersenne: P-1 Credit
Hi Eric, Eric Hahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Terry S. Arnold wrote: Does anyone have any skinny on when we will start getting credit for 1. doing P-1 testing? 2. finding a factor during P-1 testing? AFAIK, from what George has said, credit will eventually be given after BOTH v21 comes out, and the Scott has time to do some modifications to the PrimeNet server... Time Frame? ...??... Changes to support this are being designed. Mostly we needed to first get the next-generation Entropia network deployed to support v21 and other applications. This has been happening for a while now, so we will be resuming a focus on GIMPS soon. Regards, scott kurowski Entropia, Inc. _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.exu.ilstu.edu/mersenne/faq-mers.txt
Mersenne: P-1 Credit
Does anyone have any skinny on when we will start getting credit for 1. doing P-1 testing? 2. finding a factor during P-1 testing? Terry Terry S. Arnold 2975 B Street San Diego, CA 92102 USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (619) 235-8181 (voice) (619) 235-0016 (fax) _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.exu.ilstu.edu/mersenne/faq-mers.txt
Re: Mersenne: P-1 Credit
I've found 2 factors so far during P-1 testing and received 0.001 years (about 8 or 9 hours) credit for each. Not much consolation as it 'cost' upwards of 100 P90 hours each to find them, but it beats getting no credit for spending the same amount of time not finding any. Steve "binarydigits" Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Terry S. Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, September 07, 2000 1:46 AM Subject: Mersenne: P-1 Credit Does anyone have any skinny on when we will start getting credit for 1. doing P-1 testing? 2. finding a factor during P-1 testing? Terry Terry S. Arnold 2975 B Street San Diego, CA 92102 USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (619) 235-8181 (voice) (619) 235-0016 (fax) _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.exu.ilstu.edu/mersenne/faq-mers.txt _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.exu.ilstu.edu/mersenne/faq-mers.txt
Re: Mersenne: P-1 Credit
Terry S. Arnold wrote: Does anyone have any skinny on when we will start getting credit for 1. doing P-1 testing? 2. finding a factor during P-1 testing? AFAIK, from what George has said, credit will eventually be given after BOTH v21 comes out, and the Scott has time to do some modifications to the PrimeNet server... Time Frame? ...??... Eric _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.exu.ilstu.edu/mersenne/faq-mers.txt
Re: Mersenne: P-1 Credit
On 7 Sep 00, at 9:27, Steve wrote: I've found 2 factors so far during P-1 testing and received 0.001 years (about 8 or 9 hours) credit for each. Not much consolation as it 'cost' upwards of 100 P90 hours each to find them, but it beats getting no credit for spending the same amount of time not finding any. You always did get a small amount of credit for finding a factor (using trial factoring) compared with the effort that went in i.e. you got about 10x as much credit for running trial factoring unsuccessfully than for finding the "largest possible" factor in the range you were searching. I think PrimeNet credits factors found using P-1 as though they were found using trial factoring. However there is, as yet, no credit given for unsuccessful P-1 factoring effort. Don't lose sight of the fact that the purpose of running P-1 is to save time overall by avoiding running LL tests on those exponents which happen to be susceptible to P-1 factoring effort. Also, if you're running LL tests, you're certainly spending not more than 5% of your total effort running P-1 (significantly less than that if you're running double-checks), which is more than offset by the efficiency improvement between v18 and v19. Regards Brian Beesley _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.exu.ilstu.edu/mersenne/faq-mers.txt
