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Choice of application depend on software, hardware, computation type, and exponent. I've intentionally left off ECM since it has long been a nonfactor in advancing the GIMPS wavefronts relevant to finding the next prime or insuring none were missed.


Wow, did this thread get hijacked quick, from best practices to layout.

[QUOTE=ewmayer;535270]
Technical question: What is the difference between Horse hockey and Bull pucky? The preferred fodder, quality of the meat, what?[/QUOTE]Horse hockey is a sport using a frozen organic fertilizer puck produced by a horse. Bull pucky is organic fertilizer produced by a male bovine. Yes I looked them up online. I think I'll leave them out of the reference threads glossary.

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;535268]Horse hockey
[CODE] Hardware 1 Hardware 2 Hardware 3
Primality [URL="https://google.com/"][B]google[/B][/URL] [URL="https://mersenneforum.org"][COLOR=Red]Here[/COLOR][/URL] None
TF [I][URL="https://mersenne.org/"]GPUOwl[/URL][/I] [URL="https://mersenne.ca/"][STRIKE]None[/STRIKE][/URL] [STRIKE]None[/STRIKE][/CODE][/QUOTE]
Even looking at the quoted text in the reply editor, I was left with the question how did you do that. I assumed it has something to do with the link icon, so a bit of experimenting leads to this: enter display text, highlight it, clink link icon, paste in URL in the little popup, and you get something like [URL="https://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=24607"]reference threads[/URL] which hides the link even in the edit window. So to check the link is right later, it must be taken.

[QUOTE=kriesel;535223]In general, what would constitute best practices for GIMPS effort? My draft proposal:[/QUOTE]17. Be vigilant and relentless about controlling error rate. Use PRP with GEC whenever it fits the work. Take corrective measures as required to force mean GEC indicated error rate below 1 error detected and corrected/gpu or cpu worker/month. (what's the right number here?)

18. What else?

[QUOTE=kriesel;535432]18. What else?[/QUOTE]Have fun?

:mike: