Mersenne Digest Thursday, August 16 2001 Volume 01 : Number 876 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 20:16:08 -0700 From: Gerry Snyder Subject: Mersenne: Prime95 is hung up (sorta)-- what to do? Help! My prime95 (20.4.1) execution is hung up trying to communicate with the server. (Running under Win 98, if that makes a difference.) The last messages from it are below. M11095463 stage 2 complete. 53778 transforms. Time: 5459.505 sec. (7097356309232 clocks) Starting stage 2 GCD - please be patient. Stage 2 GCD complete. Time 449.537 sec. (584397792376 clocks) Sending text message to server: UID: gsnyder/P-IV-1.3Gig, M11095463 completed P-1, B1=115000, B2=1035000, WW1: 1F392115 Among the possible problem areas are the server, my firewall, my PC, or the fact that I changed its name (when I upgraded h/w, it seemed wrong to call a 1.3 GHz P 4 by the name "Celery333". The prime.log file and results.txt end with the same line as the prime95 screen. Prime95 responds to Test/Status request, and most other menu choices, but all it did for Test/Stop was gray out the menu selection. My real question is whether there is anything better to do than just kill the program and restart it. Also, is there anything I should do (beyond this email) to make sure the P-1 result gets logged? Thanks for any advice, Gerry - -- mailto:gerrysnyder@mediaone.net Gerry Snyder my work: helping generate data for: http://galileo.jpl.nasa.gov/ _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 16:37:17 -0400 From: "CARLETON GARRISON" Subject: Mersenne: What criteria are the cause for work that gets discredited? This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_000F_01C12671.B68F0230 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I had the recent occassion to see a Double Check LL test - find a = factor. On George's top producer page (the one that gets updated less = than daily or even possibly weekly - how often does it get updated?), it = says that finding a later factor or an incorrect LL result will cause = loss of credit. Is this up-to-date stat policy? Does this apply only = to LL stats or is it possible to lose credit for factoring if later = factoring proves more successful? How many such scenarios are there? Thanks, Carleton Garrison - ------=_NextPart_000_000F_01C12671.B68F0230 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I had the recent occassion to see a = Double Check LL=20 test - find a factor. On George's top producer page (the one that = gets=20 updated less than daily or even possibly weekly - how often does it = get=20 updated?), it says that finding a later factor or an incorrect LL result = will=20 cause loss of credit. Is this up-to-date stat = policy? Does=20 this apply only to LL stats or is it possible to lose credit for = factoring if=20 later factoring proves more successful? How many such scenarios = are=20 there?

Thanks,

Carleton = Garrison

- ------=_NextPart_000_000F_01C12671.B68F0230-- _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 23:58:56 -0500 From: "Jeffrey Euclide" Subject: Mersenne: 10M digit prime testing question.... Hi All, Just curious of something here, since I've upgraded to a faster machine, 1.333GHz(1.47 oc'd), 512M DDR on a win2k platform if it would be prudent to take on factoring 10M digit primes, thanks ahead.... JR _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers ------------------------------ End of Mersenne Digest V1 #876 ******************************