Less than 10,000 left....

[lycorn]

Originally Posted by davieddy

Anyone else miss the old colourful GIMPS Status page?

I do. Definitely...
Hope it will ressurect one fine day.

[petrw1]

Me too!!!

[Uncwilly]

Originally Posted by cheesehead

Just a friendly reminder to impatient folks:

As I've explained in the past, the GIMPS project itself is not being held up just because some exponents below a certain milestone aren't all being actively tested,

Yes, yes I know this, the project marches on and all.
However.... like many others, I would like a reasonable degree of assurance that there are no more M primes below 10,000,000 digits. Also, this would allow me to sleep better at night, knowing that (to a reasonable degree of assurance) M45 is really M45, and not M46.

[cheesehead]

Understood. Some people are impatient about certain things, and that's all right by itself. I'm just saying that the existing automatic and manual procedures (including reserving certain exponents for manual assignments) are sufficient to get us to the desired milestones (no more unknown Mersenne primes below 10,000,000 digits, and confirmation of M45's place) in reasonable time (without poaching, for instance).

[davieddy]

Proviing that the next prime to be discovered is the 45th
may be a big ask

[Kees]

I miss the old stats page too

[tha]

Thers is a legal 'trick' that yo can do to help swipe the floor clean below 10M digits. Have your client set to 'first time LL tests' and set the number of days work so low that the client does not request new exponents. Then wait until the v4 server has done it's supposedly daily clean up of the database and makes overdue exponents available again. During the first hours the server then hands out exponents below 10M digits. During those hours you temporarily set the numbers of days of work of your client to a higher value. The servers does fails to do the daily clean up very often but once or twice a week you can pick up low exponents. The clean up time is about 08:00 o'clock West European Time.

[mdettweiler]

Originally Posted by tha

Thers is a legal 'trick' that yo can do to help swipe the floor clean below 10M digits. Have your client set to 'first time LL tests' and set the number of days work so low that the client does not request new exponents. Then wait until the v4 server has done it's supposedly daily clean up of the database and makes overdue exponents available again. During the first hours the server then hands out exponents below 10M digits. During those hours you temporarily set the numbers of days of work of your client to a higher value. The servers does fails to do the daily clean up very often but once or twice a week you can pick up low exponents. The clean up time is about 08:00 o'clock West European Time.

Or you can just use the PrimeNet manual check-out page at that time, and add the exponent(s) to your worktodo.ini so that the results are reported through PrimeNet when they're done (and thus counted for PrimeNet credit like normally).

[tha]

Originally Posted by Anonymous

Or you can just use the PrimeNet manual check-out page at that time, and add the exponent(s) to your worktodo.ini so that the results are reported through PrimeNet when they're done (and thus counted for PrimeNet credit like normally).

The method I described gets you full credit for the work done.

[mdettweiler]

Originally Posted by tha

The method I described gets you full credit for the work done.

Yes, I know--I was just thinking that checking them out through the manual pages would make it a little easier, not having to mess with client work settings and all.

[petrw1]

As an update 15 days later we are down another 288 or 3%.