[QUOTE=casmith789;403416]Ah okay. MISFIT greys out that option so I just assumed it wasn't important for LGPU72 decide.[/QUOTE]
It wasn't. You just helped Chris fix a bug, read the discussion above, with James, who took up the glove.

curtisc????
 

[QUOTE=chalsall;403072]Just so everyone knows, we need a little bit of a surge in DCTF to 72 in order to satisfy the churners with a bit of a buffer.

Anyone so inclined are asked to take some candidates from 71 bits to 72. Preferably from the lowest exponent.

Not yet critical, but welcomed.[/QUOTE]

I just happened to notice that recently curtisc is starting to do some DC.
And "some" to curtisc is no small potatoes.

I have no way of knowing if he chose to allocate some CPUs to DC or if it is via this CPU Setting:
[CODE]DC instead of LL percentage* [/CODE]

In the last 90 days he still has 27905 LL and "only" 525 DC but in the last
[url]http://www.mersenne.org/report_recent_cleared/[/url]
report over 40% are DC.

SO........... if curtisc is even temporarily doing "some" DC its going to be more than "a bit of a surge".

I'll leave it you to handle as you so capably do so....

[QUOTE=petrw1;403497]I'll leave it you to handle as you so capably do so....[/QUOTE]

Thanks for the vote of confidence (sincerely :smile:).

At the moment curtisc has 3,230 LL and 249 DC assignments. The latter are taking ~8 days each; in other words he's doing ~31 DCs a day.

I also don't know why this is happening, but we're still "good". It is possible that these are new machines which haven't yet "proven" themselves to Primenet. If this is the case, we may soon need a "surge" in LLTF!

[QUOTE=chalsall;403504]Thanks for the vote of confidence (sincerely :smile:).

At the moment curtisc has 3,230 LL and 249 DC assignments. The latter are taking ~8 days each; in other words he's doing ~31 DCs a day.

I also don't know why this is happening, but we're still "good". It is possible that these are new machines which haven't yet "proven" themselves to Primenet. If this is the case, we may soon need a "surge" in LLTF![/QUOTE]

I think you need a new GIMPS Job Title:
"The Surge Sarge"

[QUOTE=chalsall;403411]I misspoke. s/stay ahead of the LL'ing Cat 4 wave front/stay ahead of the DC[LL]'ing Cat 4 wave front/ should be more correct.[/QUOTE]

How is the balance, currently, between LLTF and DCTF in the above categories?

[QUOTE=kladner;403506]How is the balance, currently, between LLTF and DCTF in the above categories?[/QUOTE]

We're currently a little heavy on the DCTF'ing (as requested).

For those who use automated systems to fetch work (such as [URL="http://www.mersenneforum.org/misfit/"]MISFIT[/URL]), please choose "LLTF; Let GPU72 Decide". My Spiders and AIs will then make decisions based on the real-time heuristics.

[QUOTE=chalsall;403504] It is possible that these are new machines which haven't yet "proven" themselves to Primenet. If this is the case, we may soon need a "surge" in LLTF![/QUOTE]

Makes sense since they are in the upper DC range.

[QUOTE=chalsall;403507]We're currently a little heavy on the DCTF'ing (as requested).

For those who use automated systems to fetch work (such as [URL="http://www.mersenneforum.org/misfit/"]MISFIT[/URL]), please choose "LLTF; Let GPU72 Decide". My Spiders and AIs will then make decisions based on the real-time heuristics.[/QUOTE]

Tanks! :smile:

[QUOTE=kladner;403513]Tanks! :smile:[/QUOTE]

Tank you. :wink:

[QUOTE=chalsall;403504]taking ~8 days each
<snip>
It is possible that these are new machines[/QUOTE]
These two things don't really match. Even if they don't work 24/7, but only few hours per day, still is a lot slow for new computers. I don't think the university is buying second-hand computers. I think he just reassigned old/not so efficient machines, or they fell under the "DC percentage" told above. Which (in either case) is very good for us.

Re curtisc, thinking more about this, we are just talking here like children, but the real reason is that he [U]knows[/U] where the primes are... As said in the past, he just let us fool around, but now he got pissed off because we are keeping missing the primes in that range, and went for them by himself. So, if he switched few computers to DC, than we have to pay more attention to that range...
:smile: