Assignment keys
 

Is there any way of retrieving the hex key for an assignment after it has been assigned, but the original prime.log and worktodo.txt are no longer available?

Can this be done via the server, or does George have to manually look them up? (A nice feature might be for an account owner to be able to grab them off of some server-generated report).

Thanks!

If you have an account on [URL]http://www.mersenne.org/[/URL]
login, go to "Assignments" [URL]http://www.mersenne.org/workload/[/URL]
Then "View Source". The keys are there, next to each number (name="..." field)

[SIZE=1]Note: "View Source" for that page works in mozilla, but for some reason not in IE.[/SIZE]

Handy - thank you!

Yeah, thanks a lot! I wonder why this isn't just made into a feature on v5, so you don't have to use a hack like this.

BTW, View Source worked fine for me in IE8.

[QUOTE=NBtarheel_33;188590]BTW, View Source worked fine for me in IE8.[/QUOTE]And Opera.

Assignment keys
 

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;188594]And Opera.[/QUOTE]

And Chrome

Thanks Batalov. This is very handy!

This is a related question, but is there a way to find out what bounds a TF assignment should have?

I got mprime running on my "old" computer and set it to TF and got a few assignments after I accidentally got the partition mprime was on
mounted read-only, so worktodo.txt wasn't updated. After I fixed the partition, those assignments weren't re-fetched during subsequent communication with PrimeNet.

I've since switched it to do P-1, and I'm planning to release the TF assignments, so it's not critical, but I'm curious.

[quote=apocalypse;190136]This is a related question, but is there a way to find out what bounds a TF assignment should have? [/quote]

Yes. Do a lookup on the exponent in question ("Exponent Status" is what you want to look at). It should indicate the highest bit level to which that exponent has been factored; you would want to start TF'ing to the next bit level. For instance, if you saw that M12345678 had been factored to 2^66, and you had a TF assignment, you would know that you want to carry it to 2^67, so the worktodo.txt line would read:

Factor=12345678,66,67 (TF M12345678, starting at 2^66, finishing at 2^67).

Hope this helps you out!

[QUOTE=apocalypse;190136]This is a related question, but is there a way to find out what bounds a TF assignment should have?

[/QUOTE]


May be this is what you mean. The following values were taken from a source file of the Prime95 program. The left column defines the trial factoring limit for each of the (lower) bounds listed in the right one. For example, numbers with exponents higher than 58520000 and lower than 75670000 will be factored to 70 bits.

#define FAC80 516000000L
#define FAC79 420400000L
#define FAC78 337400000L
#define FAC77 264600000L
#define FAC76 227300000L
#define FAC75 186400000L
#define FAC74 147500000L
#define FAC73 115300000L
#define FAC72 96830000L
#define FAC71 75670000L
#define FAC70 58520000L
#define FAC69 47450000L
#define FAC68 37800000L
#define FAC67 29690000L
#define FAC66 23390000L

Thanks!

I guess there's no way to know exactly what upper bounds the server thinks those assignments should have, but I can guess that it is 1 less than the value from the code, since the last bit of TF should be done after P-1.