[QUOTE=cuBerBruce;411472]Well, my waiting is over. In the first TF attempt that I started after the supermoon total eclipse, I finally found my first factor for GIMPS. :big grin:

So when is the next total eclipse?[/QUOTE]

Happy congratulations are in order! May you see MANY MORE, and soon!

[QUOTE=kladner;411518]Happy congratulations are in order! May you see MANY MORE, and soon![/QUOTE]

Thanks, Carnac(?). When you said "soon," it seems you weren't kidding! My 2nd factor only took 3 attempts. :grin:

[QUOTE=cuBerBruce;411538]Thanks, Carnac(?). When you said "soon," it seems you weren't kidding! My 2nd factor only took 3 attempts. :grin:[/QUOTE]
Congratulations and Felicitations! :party:
Maybe it [U]is[/U] Super Moon Eclipse fallout. Today has been a two-factor day (so far!) for me, as well. This after scattered single factors every three or four weeks for months. Perhaps it was just a good wish which rewarded us both. :smile:

Kieren

According to the work distribution ( [URL]http://www.mersenne.org/primenet/[/URL][B] ) [/B]There are now 2000+ P-1 assignments assigned in the 80-81M range (most of them are not even TFed beyond 71 bits yet), maybe GPU72 should hand back more assignments to Primenet for P-1 even if they are 'only' TFed to 74bits ??

[QUOTE=VictordeHolland;412109]According to the work distribution ( [URL]http://www.mersenne.org/primenet/[/URL][B] ) [/B]There are now 2000+ P-1 assignments assigned in the 80-81M range (most of them are not even TFed beyond 71 bits yet), maybe GPU72 should hand back more assignments to Primenet for P-1 even if they are 'only' TFed to 74bits ??[/QUOTE]

Yup. Have you looked at who "own" those assignments above 80M?

[QUOTE=chalsall;412116]Yup. Have you looked at who "own" those assignments above 80M?[/QUOTE]
With all sincerity, please explain.

[QUOTE=kladner;412117]With all sincerity, please explain.[/QUOTE]

I've tried to manage TF'ing to optimal levels. But then, suddenly, and randomly, there is a great demand for P-1 candidates by only a few people.

My spider only pulls its "ripcord" every five minutes or so, to lessen the load on Primenet during its observation.

As I've said before, it's not the end of the day if a candidate is released to P-1'ers before optimal TF'ing.

But, it might be nice if the P-1'ers took candidates in small batches. I hope that makes sense. And I seriously need to get out more....

[QUOTE=kladner;412117]With all sincerity, please explain.[/QUOTE]

A follow up.

Just look at [URL="http://www.mersenne.org/assignments/?exp_lo=80000000&exp_hi=90000000"]this query[/URL] to get an idea what we're dealing with.

No disingenuous assumption intended, but a stupid AI has a bit of a problem dealing with that with a scarce resource on a five minute timescale.

What do you mean by "small batches"? If I have a computer with 4 GPUs and I do P-1 and queue my work for a week, or say 10 days (I don't do P-1 right now, neither have 4GPUs in a single rig anymore, but this is just an example, and I sometime queue TF work for so many days, so it is not exaggerated), then with the current ranges and bounds, I would need about 50 minutes for stage 1 and 40 for stage 2, that is 1 and a half hour for one assignment.

I know it sounds like the "a hen and a half make an egg and a half in a day and a half, how many eggs do nine hens in nine days", but well, I can do (24 hours / 1.5 hours/expo)=16 expos per day, then times 4 GPUs, times 10 days, there are 640 expos for just one poor little system :smile:... How many assignments would a guy get, if he has 5 systems like that? (from his TF results, he has!).

I think let them be, nobody blame you for it. He is finding his share of factors, no fool play detected.

There might be another reason for that too.. Remember my computer called "pinch", used to get LLCD assignments over the gpu72 proxy. Since you started feeding me with P-1 assignments instead, I quit and start getting PrimeNet assignments directly. There were a couple of posts about this in the past, in this very thread. PrimeNet was giving me the right assignments I asked for, i.e. DC. Today, after this discussion, I enabled the proxy again. Remark that the computer is set to get First Time Tests. Guess what kind off assignments I have? Of course, you guessed right: I just got 22 pfactor lines in the last hour. And they keep coming.. (I will do them, don't worry, I transferred them to one gtx 580 card).

[QUOTE=chalsall;412120]A follow up.

Just look at [URL="http://www.mersenne.org/assignments/?exp_lo=80000000&exp_hi=90000000"]this query[/URL] to get an idea what we're dealing with.

No disingenuous assumption intended, but a stupid AI has a bit of a problem dealing with that with a scarce resource on a five minute timescale.[/QUOTE]

Wow! There's a name I haven't seen for a LOOOONG time. (Mr. P-1)