Extra versions - Wagstaff and/or LessClasses (Windows, CUDA 8.0)
 

Hi again,

[QUOTE=flashjh;444089]I just compiled the 32 and 64 bit versions of lessclass, Wagstaff, and lessclass Wagstaff.

I emailed to Oliver a few minutes ago, I'm sure he'll post them soon ;)[/QUOTE]

Thank you again!

[URL="http://mersenneforum.org/mfaktc/mfaktc-0.21/mfaktc-0.21.win.cuda80.extra-versions.zip"]Here[/URL] are the [I]extra versions[/I] ([B]Wagstaff[/B] and/or [B]LessClasses[/B]), they are an addon the to [URL="http://mersenneforum.org/mfaktc/mfaktc-0.21/mfaktc-0.21.win.cuda80.zip"]basic[/URL] version, just drop the 6 executables into the [I]basic[/I] folder.

Oliver

[QUOTE=flashjh;444090]On this note, I'm sad to say that the workhorse 580s are soon obsolete based on CUDA versions -- If they're not already ;)[/QUOTE]

"Sad" but true, in terms of performance per watt (aka energy efficiency) they are sooooooo obsolete. On the other hand we should be happy that we have more advanced hardware today.

Oliver

[QUOTE=James Heinrich;444102]Vaguely related: I discovered while writing a script to fetch new worktodo that mfaktc always rewrites all of worktodo.txt and always uses \r\n even if the file had \n line-endings (which mfaktc can read fine).[/QUOTE]

This is a result of the way \n is interpreted by the C compiler. I assume you are using Windows, for gcc/llvm certainly wouldn't use \r\n on and *nix OS.

Basically, all \r\n are translated to \n for the purposes of I/O in C, and vice versa. The mfaktc source code has no place where one may find the "\r" character sequence.

It doesn't really matter where the behaviour originates, it was just one of those gotchas I ran across. I was doing a simple assignment-count check using [i]filesize(worktodo.txt) / strlen('Factor=1234567890,64,67'."\n")[/i] and writing new assignments, and then wondering why my expected line count and actual line count didn't match.

Gentoo?
 

Will mfaktc run on Gentoo, or is this a CUDA issue?

You need CUDA, which means the Nvidia proprietary drivers. I don't know enough to know if said drivers are compatible with Gentoo, but I strongly suspect not.

[QUOTE=Dubslow;445369]You need CUDA, which means the Nvidia proprietary drivers. I don't know enough to know if said drivers are compatible with Gentoo, but I strongly suspect not.[/QUOTE]

They are. My coworker uses the binary drivers with Gentoo.

[QUOTE=Mark Rose;445371]They are. My coworker uses the binary drivers with Gentoo.[/QUOTE]

Is that from the official nvidia installation system or by cribbing the binary from some other distro's package?

[QUOTE=Dubslow;445409]Is that from the official nvidia installation system or by cribbing the binary from some other distro's package?[/QUOTE]

I'm not sure. NVidia does provide a script-based installer, so it's probably using that.

In all the pages of documents I have read, I came across something which indicated mfaktc will be revised so it can communicate with the PrimeNet server. Is this true? If so, any ideas as to when this might happen?

[QUOTE=storm5510;446080]In all the pages of documents I have read, I came across something which indicated mfaktc will be revised so it can communicate with the PrimeNet server. Is this true? If so, any ideas as to when this might happen?[/QUOTE]

Complete and utter bullshit.

Care to provide evidence to disprove this statement?