Just over 1200 additional curves so far with no factor found. Full t50 should finish by Sunday night. Or I can shift to B1=110M for 1-2k additional curves.

Or maybe it's time to abandon ECM? Your call. For now I'll just carry on towards t50 unless you say otherwise.

- Sean

How about a couple hundred at 110M, and call it good tonight? I'll start NFS Sun morning USA time.
Edit- anything above half a T50 is sufficient. I didn't calculate how much has been done; if we're past 0.5*T50, no more is needed.

So far, ECM has run ~2300 additional curves @B1=43M. In a couple of hours I will kick it up to B1=110M and let it run overnight. I'm on the east coast and have an early start tomorrow, so I can post yea or nay on any factors being found before you start NFS.

Does this work for you? I believe that will push it to well past 0.5t50 and provide sufficient due diligence to avoid a blatant ECM miss.

That's terrific, thanks for the extra effort. I'll test-sieve today, and will be ready to fire NFS when I wake up tomorrow.

I haven't previously tried running my full desktop on a single NFS task. Going to try 12-threaded sieving on a 6-core i7. Hopefully, I'll have factors in under a week!

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I haven't previously tried running my full desktop on a single NFS task. Going to try 12-threaded sieving on a 6-core i7. Hopefully, I'll have factors in under a week![/QUOTE]

Want! :bow:

Rich's 2nd poly sieves about 15% faster than the first, with yield also higher.
I used alim=rlim=33M, 31-bit LP, 2 large primes per side.
I test-sieved at alim/6, alim/3, alim/2, alim, a range of 1500q each (long enough for sec/rel to stabilize to two sigfigs)

Yield was bad at alim/6, so I will start the run at alim/4 (and with alim 35M instead of 33).
Yields at the other test points were roughly the same, around 4.5. For 140M raw relations, that's a range of about 32Mq, roughly q = 9M to 41M.

Ran ECM up to 2680 additional curves @B1=43M, plus the 1550 curves run earlier = 4230 curves, or ~55% of t50.

Now running more curves with B1=110M. Getting throughput of ~66 curves/hr. Should have >700 curves by morning. I'll post the results about 6 AM EDT.

Ran another 760 curves @B1=110M with nothing found. Terminated ECM.

It belongs to NFS now. Happy factoring!

[QUOTE=VBCurtis;413665]That's terrific, thanks for the extra effort. I'll test-sieve today, and will be ready to fire NFS when I wake up tomorrow.

I haven't previously tried running my full desktop on a single NFS task. Going to try 12-threaded sieving on a 6-core i7. Hopefully, I'll have factors in under a week![/QUOTE]

How is the speed looking? Just curious about that "12-headed monster".

79 hrs wallclock time, 78.3M relations of estimated 143M raw rels needed. If a matrix builds the first try, that'll make nearly exactly 6 days sieve time.

There is a single thread of srsieve running, so NFS has 12/13ths of the CPU. I doubt the matrix will solve in under 24 hr, so it will take me more than a week to factor. :-(

8-9 days for a 157 GNFS? Not too shabby for a single machine! Let's hope this sequence starts moving downward.

I'm willing to throw some more ECM into the mix if needed later. Just call for help here. Good luck!