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 2008-12-26, 09:10 #1 gd_barnes     May 2007 Kansas; USA 1022710 Posts Sieving drive for k=1005-2000 n=200K-500K This is a sieving drive for k=1005-2000 and n=200K-500K. If you can spare the machines, we are asking that people dedicate 15-20% of their CPU resources to the effort so that we can complete it in ~3 weeks. I will personally be putting 2 of my newer 64-bit Intel quads on it. The reason for the priority is because the 5000th-place prime on the top-5000 site is rising rapidly, largely as a result of us finding so many primes on our 1st drive and now the 5th/6th/7th drives. We would like to begin LLRing the effort before the 5000th place prime reaches n=350K, which at the current rate will be in about 3 weeks. Bruce started the sieve on n=50K-500K several months ago and got it up to P=160G. Ian has accelerted the pace in the last 2 months. Our current sieve depth is P=1400G and Ian is currently working on P=1400G-1800G. I have determined the optimal sieve depth for the n=50K-200K range to be about P=1600G so we will break off that range and not include it in this effort. In the mean time, we need to continue sieving n=200K-500K starting from P=1800G. As you can guess, even for the smaller range of n=200K-500K, the file is huge. Even in ABCD format, the entire n=50K-500K range is 32 MB and the n=200K-500K range that we will be working on is 21 MB after removing all factors up to P=1400G. Zipped, it should be about 6 MB. I provide a link to the zipped file below. If it is a problem for you to pull it off of the link, let me know and I'll Email it to you. We will likely sieve to about P=6T (6000G) and then break off n=200K-350K. We'll then need to continue sieving n=350K-500K. A rough estimate for the optimum sieve depth for that final range is P=9T-10T (9000G-10000G). Ian has been sieving P=200G per core and it has been taking him ~10-11 days using 64-bit sieving. Assuming that you have new cores and a 64-bit O.S., I would suggest taking P=100G ranges per core to start with to guage the sieving speed of your machine. If his machines are a guage, that would take you 5-6 days for each core. For slower/older machines or if you. have a 32-bit O.S., I would suggest half of that. sr2sieve is what we will use. Let us know if you need the executable or more detailed instructions on using it. I prefer that we use the more "modern" method of sieving by specifying the ranges and file name at the command prompt as in: sr2sieve -p 1800e9 -P 2000e9 -i sieve1005-2000-200K-500K.txt The above would be if you were sieving P=1800G-2000G. The file is listed after the "-i" command and is the actual file name that will be in the zipped file at googlepages. Feel free to name it something shorter if you want or use the "srwork" older convention where you don't have to specify a file name. When complete, you should have a factors.txt file. Just post the file here in this thread or if it is too big, please Email the file to me at: gbarnes017 at gmail dot com Sieve file: 1005-2000-200K-500K [factors removed up to P=3800G] Reservations: Code:  P-range reserved by Status n=50K-500K: 0G- 160G Brucifer complete 160G-1800G MyDogBuster complete n=200K-500K: 1800G-3400G gd_barnes complete 3400G-3800G Flatlander complete 3800G-4000G MyDogBuster complete 4000G-4050G Mini-Geek complete 4050G-5850G MyDogBuster complete 5850G-5900G mdettweiler complete 5900G-7100G gd_barnes complete 7100G-7200G Mini-Geek complete 7200G-8200G IronBits complete 8200G-8600G gd_barnes complete 8600G-8800G glennpat complete 8800G-10000G gd_barnes complete It won't be neccesary to reserve ranges for P>10000G. After Ian is complete to P=1800G, we will start an 8th drive for n=50K-350K beginning with the range of n=50K-200K. After we have completed all sieving, we will start a 9th drive for n=350K-500K. n=200K-350K will be done after n=50K-200K in the 8th drive. There's a lot of work to do so let's get crackin'. Once this is done, we'll have a drive where we'll likely be finding a gob of top-5000 primes each day! Gary Last fiddled with by gd_barnes on 2009-01-17 at 16:03 Reason: update status