Hm...if you could make aliqueit just close out instead of running increasing ECM curves when an error with GGNFS occurs, you could just give it a bad GGNFS path and it would quit whenever it reaches your GNFS_cutoff.
If you could use a command or app for the GGNFS path that caused aliqueit to close, that'd work great.
mklasson building in functions that allow for automatic stopping at a specified size (with options like hard composite size, total size, and only-with-driver-or-guide) would, of course, be best. :smile: (hint, hint, if you're reading this mklasson)
A worse, but still quite workable, option would be to make the GGNFS path a program that waits for you to exit it. That will make it stop working until you can see that it's waiting for you to end it.

Ya it would be nice if aliqueit handled the details on stopping at some point, but I decided it was better to work independently of aliqueit - a GUI for aliqueit as it were with the actual work seperate. Plus gmp is a bit of a pain to do for windows. You have to import a unix environment to run it in, as far as I can tell. OTOH Qt is easy with its own Qt Creator environment to program in and nothing to compile for Qt itself for windows.

I will attach the code as a pre-alpha. You would need to download Qt to run it. Note that Qt handles all the makefile stuff - so just use the creator to compile.

And this little piggy had none!
 

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Currently [color="red"]2^3 * 3^2[/color]

Updated status:

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11496 i=535, sz 107, C96, +17
12270 i=852, sz 106, C97, +29
12456 i=1835, sz 101, C94, +20
13350 i=769, sz 107, C98, +24
14022 i=487, sz 106, C92, +11
14160 i=1052, sz 110, C96, +6
20088 i=466, sz 108, C97, +20
61404 i=1285, sz 101, C91, +1
101496 i=1179, sz 111, C107, +27, finished
101520 i=849, sz 106, C98, +6, re-reserved
101706 i=2079, sz 105, C99, +46
101862 i=1747, sz 106, C96, +41
102450 i=739, sz 108, C98, +23
102480 i=951, sz 106, C96, +21
103840 i=1144, sz 103, C98, +8
104304 i=585, sz 109, C98, +30, new
104400 i=1781, sz 103, C99, +21
104692 i=994, sz 103, C91, +5, new
104904 i=1714, sz 102, C93, +23, new
104970 i=1166, sz 103, C101, +10, new and finished
105096 i=775, sz 104, C97, +8
105150 i=2131, sz 104, C103, +22, finished
106992 i=771, sz 117, C104, +42, finished
108408 i=599, sz 115, C95, +36
108416 i=1073, sz 105, C97, +45
109710 i=1524, sz 103, C92, +34
111912 i=606, sz 103, C99, +20
112584 i=518, sz 102, C100, +10, finished
113160 i=1622, sz 106, C98, +15
116712 i=1531, sz 104, C98, +12
155154 i=869, sz 110, C98, +7
166824 i=2610, sz 117, C106, +99, finished
189390 i=1497, sz 103, C99, -0-
233324 i=2468, sz 103, C93, +509 (!!)
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new = new reservation
finished = no longer reserved

Not all had progress but many had quite a bit of progress. All reservations are now at a hard C>90...slowly working my way up the low hanging fruit. :smile:

With this update, you should show that I have reservations for 28 sequences now.

Here is the story on 233324: This is by far the wildest sequence that I have worked on. Starting from a size of 100, I have processed 509 indexes on it so far and caught 3 downdrivers and "endured" a long 50+ index "flat period" where the size went essentially unchanged between 99 and 100 digits. During that time, twice I was about ready to give up on it because it was kicking out an abnormally high # of hard C95-C99's that were taking a long time to process. Fortunately I kept going and 400 indexes later I'm now in the midst of my 3rd downdriver run that just started. The downdriver runs so far:
i=2037 to 2108; 99 to 82 digits; 72 indexes; -17 digits
i=2192 to 2260; 86 to 71 digits; 69 indexes; -15 digits
i=2454 to 2468; 106 to 102 digits; 15 indexes; -4 digits**

** Still in progress. Working on a C93 right now. Note: It is actually working a 103 digit number but based on the small factors, the next index will be 102 digits.

All of this starting with a sequence that had fairly recently been unreserved from the 230-240 thread and 1 of only 4 sequences > 200K that I chose to work on. :smile:


Gary

Gary, it would be easier (for me) only to post the deltas, not your whole reservations!

it's sufficient to mention which seq has changed! the rest i get from the database, if you updated there.

BTW: updates online!

[quote=kar_bon;179985]Gary, it would be easier (for me) only to post the deltas, not your whole reservations!

it's sufficient to mention which seq has changed! the rest i get from the database, if you updated there.

BTW: updates online![/quote]

Most (about 80%) changed. OK, I'll just show the changed ones.

Deltas? Not sure what you mean. Is that the change in the current index value? Or the change in what I've reserved and completed?

Whoever the wise guy is who is running curves and sieving in the DB on my reserved 233324 that has a downdriver, I would suggest that you stop.

Somebody is trying to pull a fast one because this started happening shortly after I posted my status and updated the DB and is the only sequence I have that looks very promising. Also, after I uploaded another 10 indexes to give this person a hint that someone else is working on it, he started right it on the next index. Needless to say, I won't be doing any more uploads for a while.

With the way things are designed now, there has to be a measure of trust in the factoring community and you are breaking that trust.

If you continue, I'll be glad to take credit for your work since I've had it reserved for almost 2 weeks, including but not limited to a complete downdriver run to termination.


Thank you,
Gary

Excellent news from Clifford. He has sent me all of the .ELF files for 10K-20K!! Karsten, I have now uploaded 10K-12K to the DB. I think just a couple of your indexes will be different and you'll be able to remove your question marks on some of them. :-)

I'm uploading them one sequence at a time to avoid innundating the DB so people should notice little impact. I'll have up to 20K loaded within a couple of days.

I'll probably reserve a couple of them. I'll post them in the reservations thread.


Gary

[QUOTE=gd_barnes;179998]Excellent news from Clifford. He has sent me all of the .ELF files for 10K-20K!! Karsten, I have now uploaded 10K-12K to the DB. I think just a couple of your indexes will be different and you'll be able to remove your question marks on some of them. :-)[/QUOTE]

great, i'll update that summary as soon as possible.

BTW: by Delta i meant: seqs for which you made progress in new indices, and new or retired seqs, too, of course!

[quote=gd_barnes;179993]Whoever the wise guy is who is running curves and sieving in the DB on my reserved 233324 that has a downdriver, I would suggest that you stop.

Somebody is trying to pull a fast one because this started happening shortly after I posted my status and updated the DB and is the only sequence I have that looks very promising. Also, after I uploaded another 10 indexes to give this person a hint that someone else is working on it, he started right it on the next index. Needless to say, I won't be doing any more uploads for a while.

With the way things are designed now, there has to be a measure of trust in the factoring community and you are breaking that trust.

If you continue, I'll be glad to take credit for your work since I've had it reserved for almost 2 weeks, including but not limited to a complete downdriver run to termination.


Thank you,
Gary[/quote]

I'm guessing they didn't know you had it because it isn't in the reservations thread. I'm planning to sort out the 200k problem this week. BTW, the very high limits button is still there on the C94, even though you've added that big notice. There is only one way to remove that button, and that way is inappropriate according to other forum members.

The same problem once happened to henryzz on sequence 127308.

[URL="http://factorization.ath.cx/search.php?query=&se=1&aq=199152&action=last&fr=&to="]199152[/URL]: line 4992, size 134, 2^3*3^2, C96