phantom ECM assignments?
 

I was reviewing my GIMPS workload today when I noticed that I had three ECM assignments in the 8M range under Manual Testing. The thing is, I don't do ECM. Anyone have an idea how those assignments got there?

Sometimes primenet misinterprets work as ECM when it's really P-1.

[QUOTE=Aramis Wyler;334557]Sometimes primenet misinterprets work as ECM when it's really P-1.[/QUOTE]

Yes -- every P-1 factor-found report I've submitted (at least in the past couple of years) bumped my ECM count and ECM time credit, not my P-1 totals.

[QUOTE=ixfd64;334534]I was reviewing my GIMPS workload today when I noticed that I had three ECM assignments in the 8M range under Manual Testing. The thing is, I don't do ECM. Anyone have an idea how those assignments got there?[/QUOTE]

But, but ... you're talking about [U]assignments[/U], not factor-found reports!

[QUOTE=cheesehead;334628]Yes -- every P-1 factor-found report I've submitted (at least in the past couple of years) bumped my ECM count and ECM time credit, not my P-1 totals.[[/QUOTE]

Strange. My P-1 factors always get P-1 credit.

[QUOTE=cheesehead;334628]Yes -- every P-1 factor-found report I've submitted (at least in the past couple of years) bumped my ECM count and ECM time credit, not my P-1 totals.
[/QUOTE]Examples:

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[Thu May 20 12:26:39 2010]
P-1 found a factor in stage #1, B1=3160000.
UID: RichBWoods/Puttputt, M1502099 has a factor: 314721698358534391649, AID: 15508756AA5D67C1EB17761E4286F0C1

No factor lines found: 0
Factors found: 1
Processing result: M1502099 has a factor: 314721698358534391649, AID: 15508756AA5D67C1EB17761E4286F0C1
Insufficient information for accurate CPU credit.
For stats purposes, assuming factor was found using ECM with B1 = 50000.
CPU credit is 0.0424 GHz-days.
P-1 lines found: 0
LL lines found: 0
Mlucas lines found: 0
Glucas (G29) lines found: 0
Glucas lines found: 0
MacLucasFFTW lines found: 0
ECM lines found: 0
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[Fri May 21 23:57:45 2010]
P-1 found a factor in stage #2, B1=5000000, B2=12500000.
UID: RichBWoods/Puttputt, M3321949 has a factor: 36812105208415004803823, AID: E6873DB755A8D03441AB369ECF779218

No factor lines found: 0
Factors found: 1
Processing result: M3321949 has a factor: 36812105208415004803823, AID: E6873DB755A8D03441AB369ECF779218
Insufficient information for accurate CPU credit.
For stats purposes, assuming factor was found using ECM with B1 = 50000.
CPU credit is 0.0998 GHz-days.
P-1 lines found: 0
LL lines found: 0
Mlucas lines found: 0
Glucas (G29) lines found: 0
Glucas lines found: 0
MacLucasFFTW lines found: 0
ECM lines found: 0
[/code]Both are verbatim from saved copies of my prime.log file. I occasionally add notes to, or delete redundant information from, those saved copies, but I don't think that applies to these examples.

Wasn't there a discussion about cases like these where PrimeNet skips (or skipped, in the past) the "P-1 found a factor in..." lines without using that info ("P-1 lines found: 0") to categorize the factoring method?

My P-1 are usually submitted automatically. I have submitted factors manually though I haven't done so for a while. I didn't notice any problems at the time. Perhaps things have changed.