[QUOTE=ATH;387675]@Madpoo: Btw this is a good option for another milestone: "Number of Grandfathered assignments left" :smile: Or to be more diplomatic: "Number of exponents assigned prior to 2014-03-01 (or March 1st, 2014)"...[/QUOTE]

I was curious about that myself last night and had already crunched the #'s:

29598 TF assignments
1 P-1 assignment
31 ECM assignments
4354 first time LL
155 double check LL

These are all assignments made prior to 2014-03-01 that have not yet expired.

The large # of TF assignments were surprising, and from what I can see it appears a vast majority haven't even started yet. Only 66 of those TF assignments have reported any "percent done".

Over 16,000 of those where the exponent is in the 33M-37M range. About 300 in the 65M-110M range, and then the remainder are all 332M+ exponents with due dates in the year 2031, a mere 17 years from now.

On the LL/DC side of things, whew, there are some dedicated people out there.

The absolute oldest assignment is from 2008-11-15 (6 years ago!) on exponent 332210191. But the assignee has been testing it, slowly but surely. It's at 64.1% done, and it's being updated regularly on it's progress.

Of the 155 DC assignments, 137 of them have reported some progress on theirs... not all of them recent though. I think I could safely say some of them are clearly abandoned, where they've reported some work done but haven't updated themselves in quite a while... back in April for some that did some work, and some haven't checked in at all since it was first assigned back in 2013. But still, a good majority of them (over 100) have checked in recently, in the past couple weeks.

For the 4354 LL assignments, 1645 of them have reported some progress... again, not all of them recently. And some of those, the progress reported so far is still in the TF phase of the test, they haven't even begun the LL tests.

The rest of them haven't reported any progress at all since being assigned.

But I think there is some overly optimistic assignments... this one amused me: [URL="http://www.mersenne.org/assignments/?exp_lo=64653773"]http://www.mersenne.org/assignments/?exp_lo=64653773[/URL]

Expected completion of April 1, 2078. Is this just a really, super early April Fools Day joke? :smile: But hey, it's 1.2% done despite being assigned nearly a year ago... and whoever this is assigned to (an anonymous user) has been checking in regularly... just earlier today in fact.

Out of the 2709 exponents where 0% progress has been done, again, there's quite a few that, from my human eyes, seem clearly abandoned. They haven't checked since being assigned, or they were last updated quite a bit ago. A good # are exponents > 332M, so they got themselves a record breaking assignment but gave up.

A breakdown of those 1st time LL with no progress at all:
[CODE]Exponent Count
< 100M = 145
100M-200M = 100
200M-300M = 101
300M + = 2402
[/CODE]

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;387511]I noticed some progress on the first time LL number. I think that there is room for a [FONT="Book Antiqua"][B]Responsible Party[/B][/FONT]™ to do 3 "early double checks", that would move the move the 1LL number up past 2 xx,000,000 milestones.
[url]http://www.mersenne.org/assignments/?exp_lo=51000000&exp_hi=53000000&execm=1&exdchk=1&B1=Get+Assignments[/url]
Maybe someone can monitor these for a while. If there is low progress, maybe Chris can be summoned to perform a GIMPS "Christmas Miracle".

[URL="http://www.mersenne.org/assignments/?exp_lo=53000000&exp_hi=54000000&execm=1&exdchk=1&B1=Get+Assignments"]The next xx,000,000 milestone[/URL] after that would likely take until at least the end of March.[/QUOTE]

By the way, I checked the assignments just to make sure, and all 1st time LL exponents below 54M have indeed been assigned, so this report here will in fact show the exponents we're waiting on to get all the way up to "all exponents below 54M have been checked once"
[URL="http://www.mersenne.org/assignments/?exp_lo=2&exp_hi=54000000&execm=1&exdchk=1&exp1=1&extf=1"]Remaining exponents below 54M[/URL]

When it comes to unassigned exponents, we have to look in the 56M+ range before we start finding some that haven't been handed out to anyone. There are 4920 unassigned exponents below M(57885161).

Here's the smallest unassigned 1st time LL check if anyone cares: [URL="http://www.mersenne.org/M56155111"]http://www.mersenne.org/M56155111[/URL]

[QUOTE=Madpoo;387726]For the 4354 LL assignments, 1645 of them have reported some progress... again, not all of them recently. And some of those, the progress reported so far is still in the TF phase of the test, they haven't even begun the LL tests.[/QUOTE]

Even for the grandfathered exponent under say 60M or maybe 70M, we should have some threshold of 90 or 120 days limit since last report or they are recycled?

Btw if you add this milestone to the milestone page, just add the LL and DC? Skip the TF, P-1 and ECM, those are not that interesting?



[QUOTE=Madpoo;387729]When it comes to unassigned exponents, we have to look in the 56M+ range before we start finding some that haven't been handed out to anyone. There are 4920 unassigned exponents below M(57885161).[/QUOTE]

I believe my computer are in Cat 1, at least back in March or earlier I was getting <50M exponents, and now I'm getting 57.5M exponents.

[QUOTE=chalsall;387721]Objections? I could process all three in just over three days on machines which have 100% success rate DC'ing.[/QUOTE]

If the exponent comes up for recycling while you are processing it, then it will be reassigned to someone else -- resulting in a triple-check.

New milestone added
 

I just added a new entry to the milestone page... a "countdown" to the 1st time LL checks on exponents below 56M

It wasn't worth adding milestones for the 52M/53M/54M/55M milestones because there really aren't that many... just a few in each of those ranges from those grandfathered slowpokes.

Enjoy! Or, as George might say, "poaching season is now open!" :smile: (of course anyone could have run that report on the assignment page at any time)

[QUOTE=Madpoo;387726]
A breakdown of those 1st time LL with no progress at all:
[CODE]Exponent Count
< 100M = 145
100M-200M = 100
200M-300M = 101
300M + = 2402
[/CODE][/QUOTE]


I believe the server does not recycle exponents above 100M.

[QUOTE=ATH;387730]I believe my computer are in Cat 1, at least back in March or earlier I was getting <50M exponents, and now I'm getting 57.5M exponents.[/QUOTE]

57.5M means you are in Cat 2

[QUOTE=Prime95;387738]57.5M means you are in Cat 2[/QUOTE]

Just for the record, to paraphase Paul Hogan, "The Shrimp are on the barbie".

To quote the amazing Robin Williams, "Pack a lunch; stay for the day".

[QUOTE=Madpoo;387726]Expected completion of April 1, 2078. Is this just a really, super early April Fools Day joke? :smile: But hey, it's 1.2% done despite being assigned nearly a year ago... and whoever this is assigned to (an anonymous user) has been checking in regularly... just earlier today in fact.[/QUOTE]
I did something like this a couple of years ago. I had got an AMD Turion @ 2000MHz and a P3 @ 533MHz. So I started some LLs on P3 while Turion was testing other exponents. Then, I passed P3 exponents on Turion and completed them. I don't know if my "technique" was correct (and I'd like to know if it is), but this thing allowed me to exploit an old cpu for latest LL tests and not TF'ing. Anyway I had no internet on the old pc, otherwise you could have seen strange expected completion dates too, especially if I had used a slower (than P3) cpu.

Here is an idea. if you are really interested in monitoring the stragglers, why not create an SQL table that records every checkin with % complete. Graph that like GP2 used to a decade ago and you'll know what is abandoned.

Primenet is supposed to release exponents that have not reported for 60 days but that doesn't always work.

What happened to LL's which were assigned before GPU's came in an changed the optimal factoring levels?