Quick Question about assignments
 

[URL="http://www.mersenne.org/report_exponent/?exp_lo=51567343&exp_hi=10000&B1=Get+status"]51567343[/URL]

This exponent last had TF activty in May 2010. I know me and many others have been getting hundreds and thousands of TF assignments up to 71 bits, but usually in the 54M-55M range, at least in my experience. How come this exponent hasn't been assigned for more TF'ing, and even if not, why did it take so long to get an LL assignment to it? I got 53M back in June, when this one was just as far factored as those. Why would this happen?

Maybe it had been picked up by an anon a while back and anon never reported in. Exponent then got reassigned to you.

Possibly, but then why not TF instead of LL?

Since GPUs have successfully got most exponents up to 2^70, I've started handing out some TF to 2^71 to keep the GPUs busy.

But then why was this one sent straight to LL? It's only at 69.

These extra bits of TF are done manually on a rather ad hoc basis.

and I repeat my offer to manually TF any exponent desired to a reasonable level on request.

I had another question:
I've just restarted CUDALucas, and fed it a 25M LL-D. Unlike working for P95, there doesn't seem to be any randomisation of the data passing through the busses, so if there were a data-dependent error, and I were to repeat the test, I would have a good chance of getting the same, erroneous residue.

How does Primenet ensure independence of two LL checks on the same exponent under such circumstances?

[QUOTE=Christenson;273542]
How does Primenet ensure independence of two LL checks on the same exponent under such circumstances?[/QUOTE]

It doesn't. You can't use CudaLUCAS to double-check an exponent that was first-time tested with CudaLUCAS.

[QUOTE=Prime95;273550]It doesn't. You can't use CudaLUCAS to double-check an exponent that was first-time tested with CudaLUCAS.[/QUOTE]

If primenet does not enforce the mathematically required independence, but I can manually asssign the same exponent to my GPU twice, how does that work?

Clearly, the concern is valid, especially since my GT480 is competitive with at least two CPU cores.

[QUOTE=Christenson;273558]If primenet does not enforce the mathematically required independence, but I can manually asssign the same exponent to my GPU twice, how does that work?

Clearly, the concern is valid, especially since my GT480 is competitive with at least two CPU cores.[/QUOTE]
Does CUDALucas employ the "random shift" trick described at the
bottom of "The Math" page?
It is trivial to implement it.

David

[QUOTE=Christenson;273558]If primenet does not enforce the mathematically required independence, but I can manually asssign the same exponent to my GPU twice, how does that work?

Clearly, the concern is valid, especially since my GT480 is competitive with at least two CPU cores.[/QUOTE]

It is enforced when you check in the result. Two matching CudaLucas residues will not result in a change to the verified state.