Assignments Completed by Another User

[Prime95]

Can you email me the exponent? I'd like to investigate further (if the cable company ever hooks me up to the Internet).

[sdbardwick]

George, I'm happy to help, but I don't know what information you are requesting.
ETA: Sent PM

[petrw1]

I have (make that HAD) about 100 TF 61-62 assignments (officially assigned to me .... NOT manual or N/A assignments) in the 60,000-69,999 range and each day since early March a few more are completed by NR and dropped from my assignment list as Not Required (NR ... how appropriate).

Can I assume this was an honest mistake?

62207 as one example.

http://www.mersenne.org/report_expon...i=62207&full=1

[manfred4]

That was me, I am really sorry. I just wanted to look a little bit into factoring stuff sitting at the current lowest level. Since mfactc can't handle stuff below 100k I started there. Because this link doesn't tell anything about TF in that range I didn't look it up elsewhere.

Do you want me to send you some more results by the work you lost by that? If you are concerned about your credit.
I stopped working there, you can just continue on.

[petrw1]

Originally Posted by manfred4

That was me, I am really sorry. I just wanted to look a little bit into factoring stuff sitting at the current lowest level. Since mfactc can't handle stuff below 100k I started there. Because this link doesn't tell anything about TF in that range I didn't look it up elsewhere.

Do you want me to send you some more results by the work you lost by that? If you are concerned about your credit.
I stopped working there, you can just continue on.

No Problem (haha another NP).

At least in the case of a TF it knows if someone else completes it so when I check in my assignment progress daily PrimeNet simply tells me the work is no longer required and drops it from my worktodo.txt.
So I did NOT lose any credit.

Good point about the link you checked....since PrimeNet has decided all exponents under 20M are factored as deep as necessary it no longer reports any TF assignments in that range (only ECM or P1).

So when I want to see what work is truly free in those low ranges I use this:
http://www.mersenne.org/report_facto...=1&tftobits=72
Right now it shows me that there are 3 unassigned...I have no problem if you take those.

84191	61	100000000   2000000000
84391	61	100000000	   2000000000
84509	61	100000000	   2000000000

... Or any over 99,999. I am not in that range.

[snme2pm1]

Originally Posted by petrw1

I have (make that HAD) about 100 TF 61-62 assignments (officially assigned to me .... NOT manual or N/A assignments) in the 60,000-69,999 range

I have been aware of Sid & Andy wharehousing lots of work sub 100000.
Sometimes such assignments have become expired.
At least once in recent days I was aware of NR completing a job that I had reserved.

I noticed another four expired jobs a little while ago, and so reserved 84191, 84391, 84509 and 84592.
That was before I spotted your reference to three of those in a post above.

It would be more coordinated if people working low regions knew how to reserve such work.
Prime95 can register otherwise unassigned jobs queued, but any "N/A," must first be removed from the work unit.
I was exploring this subject in another thread http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=20052; perhaps you missed it!

[chalsall]

Originally Posted by snme2pm1

It would be more coordinated if people working low regions knew how to reserve such work.

It often surprises me how often those "on the same page" fight each other.

[manfred4]

I totally missed that discussion there, propably because I was busy with my exams. But that is a good way to reserve such work in the future (if I am in that mood of doing so again)

But that one only works for Prime95, mfaktc won't reserve anything if I wanted to. How would you reserve a big bunch of Assignments for your GPU?

Something else: It looks like we could have everything TF'ed up to 2^62 in the near future, if only Prime would let you TF very small Exponents <20.000 - it sais something like "Wrong work type, use ECM instead" and just does not do anything.

[petrw1]

Originally Posted by manfred4

I totally missed that discussion there, propably because I was busy with my exams. But that is a good way to reserve such work in the future (if I am in that mood of doing so again)

But that one only works for Prime95, mfaktc won't reserve anything if I wanted to. How would you reserve a big bunch of Assignments for your GPU?

Something else: It looks like we could have everything TF'ed up to 2^62 in the near future, if only Prime would let you TF very small Exponents <20.000 - it sais something like "Wrong work type, use ECM instead" and just does not do anything.

I may get chided for mentioning this :) but V24 of PrimeNet allows TF of exponents below 20K....
Apparently a special port of MFAKTC can also...at least one person of this forum has tried it.

[axn]

Please note that these TFs have snowball's chance in hell of finding any factors. Just sayin'

[science_man_88]

Originally Posted by axn

Please note that these TFs have snowball's chance in hell of finding any factors. Just sayin'

So if it snows in turkey pretty a pretty good chance lmao :Gate to Hell found in Turkey okay just joking.