PrimeGrid's Giving Thanks Challenge

[opyrt]

PrimeGrid's Giving Thanks Challenge is taking place 13 Nov 2009 18:00 UTC – 14 Nov 2009 18:00 UTC. This time, the task is Sierpinski sieving. More info: http://www.primegrid.com/forum_threa...rap=true#19037

We're looking forward to seeing alot of candidates removed!

[Mini-Geek]

I'll do it.

[Lennart]

Challenege is soon starting :)

I have inserted work to 60,05P now. Maybe have to insert more.


Lennart

[opyrt]

I've attached with my old crappy 32 bit AMD. It won't contribute much, but atleast I'm participating!

Now if I could only get my hands on my girlfriend's brand new 64bit dual core laptop!

[xilman]

Originally Posted by opyrt

Now if I could only get my hands on my girlfriend's laptop!

Yes, well...

Paul

[petrw1]

Originally Posted by opyrt

Now if I could only get my hands on my girlfriend's brand new 64bit dual core laptop!

I believe it's called: "I'm pretty good with PC's. Want me to 'tune' it for you?"

[opyrt]

Originally Posted by xilman

Yes, well...

Paul

You got that all wrong... Remember: Girls come and go, primes are forever.

[bdodson]

Originally Posted by Lennart

Challenege is soon starting :)

I have inserted work to 60,05P now. Maybe have to insert more.


Lennart

That's Lennart as in "Lennart SM5YMT"? Has my challenge contribution
doubled.

-bdodson (for team BOINCstats, currently the top NFS@Home team)

[opyrt]

The challenge crunched through 575T and found more than 300 factors.
More info here: http://www.primegrid.com/forum_threa...rap=true#19164

Thanks to everyone who participated!

[bdodson]

Originally Posted by opyrt

The challenge crunched through 575T and found more than 300 factors.
More info here: http://www.primegrid.com/forum_threa...rap=true#19164

Thanks to everyone who participated!

After half a hour of clicking various links, I see that I found 7 primes,
along with scoring 14 points for BOINCstats. Any chance of a pointer
as to which primes I found, and what small part they play in the PSP
sieving project?

-bdodson (#1 on NFS@Home by RAC and total credits,
just recently passed UL1)

[opyrt]

Originally Posted by bdodson

After half a hour of clicking various links, I see that I found 7 primes,
along with scoring 14 points for BOINCstats. Any chance of a pointer
as to which primes I found, and what small part they play in the PSP
sieving project?

I suspect you attached PrimeGrid and just ran it as is without turning off any projects? PrimeGrid has a lot of different sub-projects to choose from and the default setting is you run all. You can choose which to run from your account on the project pages.

However, if you did choose only "Prime Sierpinski Project (Sieve)", then you must have found 7 factors, not primes, as we do not find primes with sieving.

I'm not too familiar with the statistics on the PrimeGrid pages, but I know there are a lot of helpful people on their message boards... Maybe you can get more help there?