Quick Question about assignments

[Dubslow]

Mr. P-1, do you still want results files, or just want me to tell you when the batch is done so you can unreserve?

[Chuck]

Mr. P-1 my exponents from you are complete; I am getting assignments from GPU to 72 now. I have reported all I got from you.

[kladner]

Originally Posted by Chuck

Mr. P-1 my exponents from you are complete; I am getting assignments from GPU to 72 now. I have reported all I got from you.

I can echo this question, with the caveat that I am still finishing off a few of the assignments I got from Mr. P-1, some of which I upped from 70 to 71. I have also added some from GPU to 72 just to make sure I keep the GPU churning one way or another.

But really, I have another question which might be pertinent for others.

In the last few days I got my old system back up and running with Ubuntu 11.1. With delta_t's kind assistance, I have it running headless with mprime. I'm even starting to get a few of my minimal Linux skills back. (It's been 5-6 years since I dealt with that.) The "old system" is an Opteron 180, dual core, 2x 128KB L1, 2x 1MB L2, 2.4GHz, with 3GB of RAM. At the moment it is running P-1 on both cores, with 2048MB allowed. The PrimeNet assigned exponents are both low 60M, and both workers are still on the first assignment.

Meanwhile, I have reconfigured my 1090T system (Win7-64, 8GB) to run 3 cores to feed 3x mfaktc, 2 cores doing P-1, and 1 core doing LL with a few partially completed assignments to finish up. Considerable experimenting has shown that the machine remains reasonably usable with mfaktc.ini set for AllowSleep=1 set for all instances. I should note that the GTX-460 is no longer being bothered with feeding the display. I got the onboard ATI back in service for that when I found that, even NOT running mfaktc that the 460 did not make a noticeable difference in screen performance relative to the ATI onboard HD 4290. I suppose that this takes the GTX-460 out of the loop as far as GPU assistance for Photoshop goes, though. I have also configured P95-64 to pause the first worker (LL) when Pshop is running.

In any case, regarding the Linux box, should I just continue with the large (60M) exponent P-1 assignments from PrimeNet? Would any of the wiser persons suggest a different allocation of resources overall?

Thanks!

EDIT: And one other question--should I be pushing all assignments (or at least PFs) to 72?

[Christenson]

Kladner:
Sounds like a fine plan...although I'd push all my exponents by exactly one bit, so as to maximise the number of factors you find.

[kladner]

Thanks, Christenson!

[Dubslow]

Originally Posted by Dubslow

Mr. P-1, do you still want results files, or just want me to tell you when the batch is done so you can unreserve?

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[Mr. P-1]

Originally Posted by Dubslow

Mr. P-1, do you still want results files, or just want me to tell you when the batch is done so you can unreserve?

Sorry for my lack of attention to this project these past few days. With chalsall taking over my role (thank heavens), I've turned my attention to other matters.

If you've done everything I've given you, then that's all I need to know.

[Bdot]

Originally Posted by Mr. P-1

Sorry for my lack of attention to this project these past few days. With chalsall taking over my role (thank heavens), I've turned my attention to other matters.

If you've done everything I've given you, then that's all I need to know.

I'll be finishing the tasks you assigned to me over the weekend, I'll let you know.

I just tried to get 100 assignments to 2^70, <53M from GPU to 72 for the machine that is about to finish one of P-1's jobs, but got only 93. "There are no more" is basically what it said.

However, the "Available Assignments" lists plenty of them for all categories. I'm not sure if I unchecked the "P-1 done" box, but for both P-1 done and not done there are hundreds of exps available in <69 and 69 ... is there some other limit? Or a display bug in the "Available Assignments" (I already tried reloading with no change)?

If we really cleared the available 2^69's - very good ...

[Christenson]

Mr P-1:
I have temporarily lost access to the computer where I was completing your assignments. The group that owns it has been moving and my work has made me unable to meet up with them (on the required weekinight) to restore my after-hours access. There's a very good chance that a major part has been completed, but is simply waiting for me to come in and upload the "results.txt" file.

Ckdo: Chalsall's tool also seems to cover the 25-30M area...found out accidentally when looking for some low bit levels...I have finished the set you gave me, found one more factor.

[Mr. P-1]

Originally Posted by Christenson

Mr P-1:
I have temporarily lost access to the computer where I was completing your assignments.

Such things happen. I'll wait until you regain access.

[Dubslow]

Hey Mr. P-1, either do you have a script to transform mfaktc results files to mfaktc worktodo files, or should I use awk or sed or something else to implement such a script?