Don´t step on my toes... please!

[cheesehead]

Originally Posted by LiquidNitrogen

Couldn't you check the status before you start at this link:

http://mersenne.org/report_exponent/

The problem in this case was that lindee was not using the PrimeNet reservation system (see post #5 for why), so lindee would not have shown up on http://mersenne.org/report_exponent/, which is generated from the PrimeNet database, when lycorn checked it.

Note that, although the use of the PrimeNet reservation system is ordinarily strongly encouraged (and I've ranted at length about "poachers" who test numbers while someone else has the exponents reserved), lindee (and other LMHers) gets a pass on this (_if_ they use the method in the next paragraph) because it's simply not practical to use the current PrimeNet reservation system for registering the hundreds of thousands of assignments at a time that TF work in those higher regions involves.

However, the principle of not "stepping on toes" is still much-desired by all such folks, so there has arisen a semi-formal alternate reservation system operating through postings in this forum rather than through PrimeNet. If everyone doing work on non-PrimeNet assigned exponents agrees to, and faithfully does, register ranges of exponents through this system (plus other community-agreed-upon rules as listed by chalsall), it can work just as well as PrimeNet for the purpose of avoiding duplication of efforts.

Some feel that it's time to tweak the alternate system a bit, as proposed earlier in this thread.

[lycorn]

Originally Posted by lindee

Sorry about stealing your work.

That´s OK, no hard feelings...
Next time I´ll take some additional precautions, such as looking into other range(s) and/or doing higher levels of TF (e.g. 65->66 bits)


@LiquidNitrogen: as I wrote in my post, I made sure the exps weren´t reserved (not using the link you posted that works on a per exponent basis, but rather the "Factoring Limits" report, that allows you to display entire lists of exponents, filtered by TF depth, and also by their reservation status, which is a really neat feature). Then I reserved them, getting the AIDs, which is an additional proof they were unreserved (the server would have refused the reservation and warned me). The issue was that linded didn´t reserve the exps through the server, and therefore was unaware of my work.

[Uncwilly]

100M digit range would love to have your help.

[Christenson]

Do I get those out of the primenet server?

[Uncwilly]

Originally Posted by Christenson

Do I get those out of the primenet server?

Sure, go to the manual assignment page: Ask for TF of numbers greater than 332,192,831

[Reed_Young]

Originally Posted by chalsall

Currently lindee "has" 900M, monst "has" 700M, and I "have" 500M.

I didn't know of this thread when I checked out 536871017, but I will post here before picking out any more in the 500M, 700M or 900M ranges. Cool?

[chalsall]

Originally Posted by Reed_Young

I didn't know of this thread when I checked out 536871017, but I will post here before picking out any more in the 500M, 700M or 900M ranges. Cool?

Hey, that's cool. So you know, I'm only working the 500M to 600M range from 64 to 65 "bits", so this exponent wasn't even scheduled in my "Mini PrimeNet" controller.

But as I said above, if you (or anyone else) would like to do work in this range, please just let me know what sub-range you'd like, and I will ensure my cluster doesn't interfere.

[Reed_Young]

Originally Posted by chalsall

Hey, that's cool. So you know, I'm only working the 500M to 600M range from 64 to 65 "bits", so this exponent wasn't even scheduled in my "Mini PrimeNet" controller.

Out of curiosity, if you finish factoring to 65 bits and find no factors, you quit on it anyway and check the next number? What's the fun in that? Or what am I missing?

[chalsall]

Originally Posted by Reed_Young

What's the fun in that? Or what am I missing?

It amuses my sorry ass to find lots of factors.

Plus, I mostly use Prime95 to generate a small, but regular and predictable, amount of web traffic for machine monitoring and network debugging.

This once helped recover a stolen computer for one of my clients. The thief was too stupid to re-install the OS, so the machine would every few minutes report its public IP to my server.

[davieddy]

Originally Posted by chalsall

It amuses my sorry ass to find lots of factors.

Plus, I mostly use Prime95 to generate a small, but regular and predictable, amount of web traffic for machine monitoring and network debugging.

This once helped recover a stolen computer for one of my clients. The thief was too stupid to re-install the OS, so the machine would every few minutes report its public IP to my server.

[Reed_Young]

Originally Posted by chalsall

It amuses my sorry ass to find lots of factors.

Plus, I mostly use Prime95 to generate a small, but regular and predictable, amount of web traffic for machine monitoring and network debugging.

This once helped recover a stolen computer for one of my clients.

Either of those by itself would be more than enough reason!

Originally Posted by chalsall

The thief was too stupid to re-install the OS, so the machine would every few minutes report its public IP to my server.

Petty larceny -- not the career path of super-geniuses? Huh. ;-)