Yeah, it is not so strange really. The 10M digit prize and the "10M digit LL" option in Prime95 had cleared 33219281+ for many years while the sub 10M digit area was not finished, so this is just the point when the sub 10M digit finished and catched up to the 10M+ digit wavefront.

I'm not sure exactly when 10M digit prize and option started but it was already going when I joined in 2003, and back then the real wavefront was at 18M-20M (I got an 18.8M test in Oct 2003).

I have the milestone logs from 2010 and I'm pretty sure [URL="http://mersenne.org/M31494937"]http://mersenne.org/M31494937[/URL] was the culprit:
2010-12-25 5am UTC: All exponents below 31,494,937 have been tested at least once.
2010-12-25 7am UTC: All exponents below 37,591,483 have been tested at least once.

I'm missing the one from 6am UTC unfortunately, but it is very unlikely that another exponent above 31494937 finished in those 2 hours.

Another Palindromic.

All exponents below 35,583,869 have been tested and double-checked.
All exponents below 63,350,927 have been tested at least once.

Countdown to first time checking all exponents below 64M: [B]1[/B] (Estimated completion : 2016-06-04)
Countdown to first time checking all exponents below 65M: [B]1[/B] (Estimated completion : 2016-06-04)
Countdown to first time checking all exponents below 66M: [COLOR="Red"][B]1[/B][/COLOR] (Estimated completion : 2016-06-04)
Countdown to first time checking all exponents below 67M: [B]11[/B] (Estimated completion : 2016-06-07)

[QUOTE=rudy235;431734]Countdown to first time checking all exponents below 67M: [B]11[/B] (Estimated completion : 2016-06-07)[/QUOTE]

Someone with an assignment 96.3% done when it was expired finally [url=http://www.mersenne.org/report_exponent/?exp_lo=66706501&exp_hi=&full=1]completed it[/url] to bring this countdown value to 11.

BTW, an anonymous user has grabbed a [url=http://www.mersenne.org/report_exponent/?exp_lo=67386427&exp_hi=&full=1]cat 0 exponent[/url] that has been available for over two days.

[QUOTE=cuBerBruce;431741]\

BTW, an anonymous user has grabbed a [url=http://www.mersenne.org/report_exponent/?exp_lo=67386427&exp_hi=&full=1]cat 0 exponent[/url] that has been available for over two days.[/QUOTE]


Is that bad?

[QUOTE=rudy235;431744]Is that bad?[/QUOTE]

Well, given that it's generally desired to have cat 0 exponents be started and completed quickly, it's a bit unfortunate to have it sit for over two and a half days before it even gets assigned. But then, this is not a particular low cat 0, so I don't think it's much to be concerned about (at least as far as this particular exponent is concerned).

The fact that it was an anonymous user might also raise a little concern whether it will get done promptly, but supposedly that user has shown good throughput in order to get the assignment in the first place.

[QUOTE=cuBerBruce;431741]
BTW, an anonymous user has grabbed a [url=http://www.mersenne.org/report_exponent/?exp_lo=67386427&exp_hi=&full=1]cat 0 exponent[/url] that has been available for over two days.[/QUOTE]

Anonymous users are allowed access to cat 0 assignments as long as their computer is producing results at the proscribed rate. In this case, the computer is producing over 22 GHz-days per day per worker.

Looking into this I did find and fix a bug. Cat 0 M67122481 was assigned in error. I hope this doesn't cause a milestone blockage.

[QUOTE=cuBerBruce;431741]Someone with an assignment 96.3% done when it was expired finally [url=http://www.mersenne.org/report_exponent/?exp_lo=66706501&exp_hi=&full=1]completed it[/url] to bring this countdown value to 11.

BTW, an anonymous user has grabbed a [url=http://www.mersenne.org/report_exponent/?exp_lo=67386427&exp_hi=&full=1]cat 0 exponent[/url] that has been available for over two days.[/QUOTE]

It's not really an anonymous user, just someone who didn't list a "public name" in their account profile.

I've worked up a test page that actually makes that distinction... you can see here what it does in those cases:
[URL="http://www.mersenne.org/report_exponent/default.mock.php?exp_lo=67386427&exp_hi=&full=1"]M67386427 Test Report[/URL]

I can't remember if I had other changes on that page that I was working on, but that's the general idea.

I think "Anonymous" would be more accurate. As for users without accounts, they should be marked as "Unregistered."

I think the next candidate coming up for LL expiration will be this:
[URL="http://www.mersenne.org/assignments/?exp_lo=67084891"]http://www.mersenne.org/assignments/?exp_lo=67084891[/URL]

If my guess is right, it'll expire around 11:30 PM (UTC) on Wed the 20th (around when the nightly task runs).

Since it's in the 67M range where there are still lots of unassigned exponents, there's little danger of it being poached, but on the other hand it's #115 or so in the pecking order, so it should still qualify as cat 0.

I'm curious to see what kind of user/machine gets the assignment under the new rules, so it should be a good real world example.

The next ones after that are likely to be these, with about a week (+/1 a day) 'til expiration:
67124933
67125973
67130443

67125973 in particular will be interesting... the current assignee is still checking in, but I'm showing they'll finish in 25 days, even though it'll expire in 6. Oh the drama... will the new assignee finish it before the expired one? Stay tuned! LOL

The other 2 have checked in somewhat recently, but not in the past few days, so I don't know if they wandered off or what, but they could still be working on them. If 67130443 keeps going at the rate they were, they'd finish in 21 days but expire in 8. 67124933 would finish in ~ 24 days but expire in 6.

[QUOTE=Prime95;431755]Looking into this I did find and fix a bug. Cat 0 M67122481 was assigned in error. I hope this doesn't cause a milestone blockage.[/QUOTE]

Hmm... in the 4 days between assignment and first check-in, it moved the bar a whopping 0.9%. Let's hope 3.5 of those 4 days were spent finishing up another exponent in the queue and we just caught the beginning of it... otherwise, it'll run out the clock and expire before finishing.

[QUOTE=Madpoo;431965]Hmm... in the 4 days between assignment and first check-in, it moved the bar a whopping 0.9%. Let's hope 3.5 of those 4 days were spent finishing up another exponent in the queue and we just caught the beginning of it... otherwise, it'll run out the clock and expire before finishing.[/QUOTE]Would it/they have not checked-in said other assignment and that would show in the results/logs? :confused: