[QUOTE=kladner;328802]Both GPUs cleared out and reloaded with 71-72s here. They should do a little less than 82/day.[/QUOTE]

Thanks everyone for your speedy response! :smile:

[QUOTE=garo;328788]Hehe Chris. I told you so :razz:[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I know... And I did listen to you, but I didn't appreciate just how much of a "surge" you meant... :blush:

[QUOTE=garo;328788]I am glad you are keeping such a close watch on things and that there is such a responsive crowd here.[/QUOTE]

Indeed. We've got a good team effort here! Thanks again everyone! :smile:

[QUOTE=chalsall;328827]Yeah, I know... And I did listen to you, but I didn't appreciate just how much of a "surge" you meant... :blush:
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I've seen a bunch of these dang things discovered and seen what happens to the server. I think the last couple of discoveries had muted responses because they came so close after the 10 million digit find and mass media can only handle so many record primes a decade :smile: After 4+ years I felt there would be a pent-up demand.

PS: Book off to publisher.

Lowering alert level to DEFCON 2.
 

Just a status update for everyone...

The surge appears to be abating... "Only" ~800 assignments were issued yesterday.

Also, at the suggestion of Garo and the approval of George, I have brought in every available candidate below 64M TFed to less than 73 "bits". Thus there are approximately 6,534 candidates at 73 bits or above which can be issued by Primenet for LLing or P-1'ing.

If all of those are issued (unlikely), we have ~2,500 (and climbing) candidates at 72 bits ready to release back to Primenet.

So, basically what I'm saying is it now doesn't appear we're going to have to release at 72 after all, even though we're ready to do so if needed.

My apologies for causing everyone to do the big change to 72 bits on Saturday, but for a while there it looked like we were about to be swamped. I'm going to leave the default settings at 72 for at least another day to make sure we've got a few more days of lead time, then I'll move it back up to 73.

Also, all MISFIT users should see [URL="http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?p=328878#post328878"]this discussion[/URL]. I'm going to implement a change for the "What Makes Sense" option such that the system will make the decision as to what the Pledge level should be. But, to be clear, this is only for MISFIT users; manual (read: human) use will remain the same.

Specifically, the impact to MISFIT users is if you only want to go to 72 (or 71) you should change the "Option" setting from WMS to "Lowest Exponent" or "Lowest TF Level", etc. Only the WMS option will override the Pledge and Range settings. Lastly, WMS will never change the worktype; LLTF requests will always be LLTF, ditto for DCTF.

Thanks for the cycles everyone! :smile:

@chalsall I guess we really do [URL="http://mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?p=328969"]need more[/URL] P-1... :unsure:

[QUOTE=kracker;328983]@chalsall I guess we really do [URL="http://mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?p=328969"]need more[/URL] P-1... :unsure:[/QUOTE]

Definitely. But there's little chance of that happening in time.

Even before the "surge" approximately 25% of all assignments were without P-1. Now it's up to something like 90%.

We're given' all she's got, Captain! The dilithium crystals canna tak nae mair! :max:

[QUOTE=kladner;328994]We're given' all she's got, Captain! The dilithium crystals canna tak nae mair! :max:[/QUOTE]

ROFLMAO...

We do what we can. 8-)

[QUOTE=chalsall;328985]Definitely. But there's little chance of that happening in time.

Even before the "surge" approximately 25% of all assignments were without P-1. Now it's up to something like 90%.[/QUOTE]

On the bright side, some new participants may complete P-1 testing before doing the LL, so even if they get discouraged and don't finish the LL, at least they will have made a small contribution. It will be interesting to see what percentage of the new volunteers have reported progress within 60 days.

:razz:
Maybe I might consider switching some of my DC [strike]machines[/strike] minions to P-1.

[QUOTE=kracker;329006]:razz:
Maybe I might consider switching some of my DC [strike]machines[/strike] minions to P-1.[/QUOTE]

You definitely should. I have converted 5 cores from DC to P-1.