Team sieve #8: c157 from 4788.2422

[Andi47]

Originally Posted by Andi47

My range is close to finishing, I guess I can upload the relations tonight.

It finished faster than expected, upload of 1142898 relations in progress.

Edit: upload complete.

[bsquared]

Originally Posted by Andi47

It finished faster than expected, upload of 1142898 relations in progress.

Edit: upload complete.

Got em.

Also, 56-60 is done. 4139992 relations.

[bsquared]

Originally Posted by henryzz

i might be able as it is a weekend but it is hard to tell as my computer isnt always on

No need to abort early, I'm not in any particular hurry. When everyone's ranges are done, I'll start the filtering. In the meantime, I'll take 19-20M and 60-61M.

[fivemack]

It turns out that the computers at a protein-crystallography company are sometimes called upon to do calculations involving protein crystallography rather than factorisation.

So I've finished 40-43 (3376772 rels) and 49-52 (3244420 rels), uploading now, but it'll be another day or so to finish 43-49, though I've set several of my personal machines on the job.

Reserving 18-19.

[henryzz]

i will start uploading shortly
i have only about 1000qs left plus compression of the file

[fivemack]

I've got the distribution of tasks over CPUs slightly wrong, but my jobs should still be done by Wednesday morning. Two weeks to factor a C157 is still not terribly long.

[bsquared]

got 3376772 relations from 040-043.gz from fivemack. But now I'm getting connection problems to the ftp server:

X:\buhrow\ggnfs\4788_2422>ftp nplb-gb1.no-ip.org
Connected to nplb-gb1.no-ip.org.
Connection closed by remote host.

Anyone else tried to connect recently?

[mdettweiler]

Originally Posted by bsquared

got 3376772 relations from 040-043.gz from fivemack. But now I'm getting connection problems to the ftp server:

X:\buhrow\ggnfs\4788_2422>ftp nplb-gb1.no-ip.org
Connected to nplb-gb1.no-ip.org.
Connection closed by remote host.

Anyone else tried to connect recently?

Ooh...right. I just read over in the NPLB forums (and confirmed for myself) that the nplb-gb1.no-ip.org server is down. Unfortunately, Gary (whose house the server is at) is out of town until the 22nd, and if indeed the server is down due to a power outage or other such interruption, then we may not get the server back up until then.

Henry, I think you're the only one whose relations are in a state of "limbo" right now (uploaded, but not received). Do you still have the file on hand? If so, then hang on to it; we may need to use an alternate server for FTP uploads.

[Mini-Geek]

The FTP server is on one of Gary's machines, and he's having some sort of problems, maybe a power outage. You can watch the progress at http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthr...870#post180870
To add to the problems, Gary is on vacation with limited Internet access.
Hopefully this won't interfere too much with getting this c157 cracked...
Edit: Max beat me to it.

[Andi47]

Originally Posted by mdettweiler

Ooh...right. I just read over in the NPLB forums (and confirmed for myself) that the nplb-gb1.no-ip.org server is down. Unfortunately, Gary (whose house the server is at) is out of town until the 22nd, and if indeed the server is down due to a power outage or other such interruption, then we may not get the server back up until then.

Henry, I think you're the only one whose relations are in a state of "limbo" right now (uploaded, but not received). Do you still have the file on hand? If so, then hang on to it; we may need to use an alternate server for FTP uploads.

Rapidshire (or similar upload servers) may be an alternative.

[mdettweiler]

Originally Posted by Andi47

Rapidshire (or similar upload servers) may be an alternative.

Yes, that would work if necessary. However, from my experience with previous team sieves for which we needed to use Rapidshare instead of FTP, it was a huge pain in the butt to have to download files. Unless you're a paying, registered user (which I'm not), you have to wait 45 seconds before a download will begin, *plus* you have to wait at least 15 minutes between downloads. Needless to say, it was a rather annoying experience, especially when I needed to download more than one file in direct succession.

Not meaning to presume, but I think Frank had a server set up for tranferring Aliquot sequence relations, right? That might do the trick, at least until the nplb-gb1.no-ip.org server comes back online.