Need help with ECM.
 

Hey, guys, I've only been doing this for a week(or 1.5 months if you count Riesel Sieve) and I have a question.

I made the comment in another thread that I thought it would be better for me to sieve instead of prping. Mystwalker advised me to ECM. I know that prime95 has an option for that(or at least, I think I know), but I don't want to start up primenet and download work that I subsequently mess up.

Please advise.

ECMing has nothing to do with Primenet, so there's nothing to screw up. :wink:

I already posted the instructions needed for EMCing [url=http://rieselsieve.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=367&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=21]here[/url]. If something is still unclear, feel free to ask.

The posts there also explain how to compile gmp-ecm6 on your machine (assuming you use Windows - with Linux/MacOS X, it's even easier). It's really easy - and you have to do it for maximal performance.
Unfortunately, I only have binaries for Pentium4 and Pentium-M. :sad: