[QUOTE=davieddy;334644]and the fact that Primenet will start releasing candidates assigned after the "big announcement" in a couple of weeks or so.
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Did I miss the memo or do you have some insider info?

P.S. Does anyone know why the comment I quoted from Chris got attributed to David?

[QUOTE=petrw1;334834]Did I miss the memo or do you have some insider info?[/QUOTE]

For the record, I have access to no more information than anyone else does from Primenet. However, one of my Spiders reports than many candidates assigned during the "surge" following the "big announcement" (read: M48) have been abandoned.

It's the usual "Oh, that sounds like fun. I'll probably be able to make more money finding the next MP than I'm currently making bitcoin mining." [User downloads the software, gets a LL assignment.] "It's going to take HOW MANY WEEKS to do ONE assignment!!! Scr3w this!"

But, with larger numbers of candidates.... :wink:

[QUOTE=petrw1;334834]Did I miss the memo or do you have some insider info?[/QUOTE]Don't worry, I also misread that statement as there being an upcoming "big announcement". There isn't. The [url=http://mersenne.org/various/57885161.htm]big announcement[/url] happened nearly 60 days ago, and after said announcement there as a surge in exponents assigned, and it's expected that many (most?) of them have likely been abandoned after the initial assignment and will expire after 60 days of inactivity.

[QUOTE=chalsall;334841]For the record, I have access to no more information than anyone else does from Primenet. However, one of my Spiders reports than many candidates assigned during the "surge" following the "big announcement" (read: M48) have been abandoned.[/QUOTE]
The number of exponents assigned to LL in the 100M digit range have plateau and are likely to start shrinking soon, too.:badspelling:

The default level has been raised to 74 bits, but entering 75 or higher still gives me a message saying that factoring beyond [I]73[/I] bits is unadvised.

[QUOTE=ixfd64;335119]The default level has been raised to 74 bits, but entering 75 or higher still gives me a message saying that factoring beyond [I]73[/I] bits is unadvised.[/QUOTE]

Thanks for pointing that out. SPE in the Javascript; forgot to update it to the new levels. Fixed.

BTW, those using MISFIT with the "What Makes Sense" et al options (rather than "Let GPU72 decide") might consider raising their pledge level to 74.

We have to reduce our output for a while, thermal issues. As we said many times, April is the hottest period of the year here, we already started to get [URL="http://www.wunderground.com/weather-forecast/TH/Chiang_Mai.html"]30C overnight[/URL], and we just received our electricity bill for March... :rant:

[QUOTE=LaurV;335368]April is the hottest period of the year here, we already started to get [URL="http://www.wunderground.com/weather-forecast/TH/Chiang_Mai.html"]30C overnight[/URL][/QUOTE]We're also having a warm spell here, today marks the second day in a row that daytime highs reached above 0C. Even the river's starting to melt. Nevertheless, we'll attempt to continue at full capacity. :wink:

[QUOTE=James Heinrich;335376]We're also having a warm spell here, today marks the second day in a row that daytime highs reached above 0C. Even the river's starting to melt. Nevertheless, we'll attempt to continue at full capacity. :wink:[/QUOTE]

Oh man, with the river turning liquid I don't know how you wil be able to keep the throughput up! lol!

It's warming up here, too - I had to add a second radiator to my computer to keep the cpu below 80C.

[QUOTE=James Heinrich;335376]We're also having a warm spell here, today marks the second day in a row that daytime highs reached above 0C. Even the river's starting to melt. Nevertheless, we'll attempt to continue at full capacity. :wink:[/QUOTE]
I heard Curtisc had looked into water cooling for his many systems, which is why Iceland looks the way it does today.

The X-axis labels on the [url=http://www.gpu72.com/graphs/worker/56f1b7572536a14513b08c88b2ba9578/]work-done-by-user graph[/url] at the bottom of [url=http://www.gpu72.com/reports/worker/56f1b7572536a14513b08c88b2ba9578/]Individual Overall Statistics[/url] is too busy, all the numbers are running over top of each other.