GPUers, please TF my exponents! - Page 4

Chuck · 2011-10-28, 00:14

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Originally Posted by Mr. P-1

Agreed, given that there are so few of them. I'll do that in future.

Could everyone who has accepted assignments from me please send me your results files after you have submitted them to the server. It doesn't matter if they have other assignments mixed in with mine.

Thanks everyone for your help.

No. I report results throughout the day and I don't save the results files.

Christenson · 2011-10-28, 00:48

Do you want factors, or the no factor found results, too?

kladner · 2011-10-28, 01:05

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Originally Posted by Christenson

Do you want factors, or the no factor found results, too?

EDIT: When I took up this task, Mr. P-1 said approximately, "You don't have to tell me about factors, but it's OK if you do."

I've settled on saving the contents of uploaded results.txt files in one file and shooting that off to Mr. P-1. No filtering. He can do as he wants with it. He already said that it doesn't have to be all his stuff, though that's all I have from mfaktc at the moment.

It's also really easy once the results have been uploaded. Ctl-A, Ctl-X, Ctl-S, (switch files) Ctl-V, Ctl-S. Maybe there's even a way to batch file that.

davieddy · 2011-10-28, 01:12

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Originally Posted by Mr. P-1

The wavefront is just short of 56M, and most of these exponents have been TFed to 71. Sure, we could maybe take 200 56M exponents per day to 72, finding about 2 factors per day that we would otherwise miss.

Or for the same resources, we could take maybe 700 exponents* or thereabouts between 45M and 53M from 69 to 70, finding about 7 factors per day.

I've already asked you why your proposal is better than what we're doing. I'm still waiting for your explanation.

*It wouldn't be four times as many, because it takes longer to factor smaller exponents to the same bit level.

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Originally Posted by Mr. P-1

The ones to 69 bits will all be less than 50M.

My thinking here is that among those exponents needing 69-70, I am prioritising the higher exponents, on the grounds that they take less time to complete, and that any factors found are more valuable.

Factorisation 68-69 has priority, but once this has been done, these small exponents fall to the end of the priority queue. But I can't always be bothered with this, so sometimes I just tell people to take them straight from 68-70.

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Originally Posted by garo

Too much micromanaging involved. Just take them to 70 already!

Phew!
I don't want to speak too soon but I detect glimmers of light dawning

Admirable as your "grabbing" efforts are, it is a one-off exercize.
Provided the new exponents dished out are optimally TFed (72)
even the expiries will have no further need for TF. Maybe some P-1.

George has just said he will get primenet to dish out 55M+ for TF to
72 when he gets home. I hope there is some mechanism to ensure
that only GPUs receive these assignments. Someone seems to be
"hoarding" some TF assignments, hence my plea to let primenet and
all GPU GIMPS participants get on with this job.

As I said, remember this is a great "distributed computing" project,
although it is indeed impressive how much a few enthusiastic folk
can achieve.

It's not a question of "TFahead OR behind the wavefront".
Both are needed.

David

kdgehman · 2011-10-28, 01:52

Mr. P-1, I would enjoy helping with this project. Please send me 100 assignments.

davieddy · 2011-10-28, 02:05

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Originally Posted by garo

Too much micromanaging involved. Just take them to 70 already!

I hope you will forgive me for airing this in public:

Your command of English is generally so impeccable that
one would assume it was your native language.

But I don't think anyone in UK, US, Canada or the Southern hemisphere
would have used "already" like that.

I had the great pleasure of a friendship with a housemate who
was the German/French "assistante" at the school I where I first taught.
Born in Rwanda (black mother, Belgian father), lived (quote) "in the jungle" (with great pride I may add) till she was seven, when her father
took her back to Belgium.

Her English was immaculate as well, but it does have its quirks.
She said that foreigners had problems with "fun/funny".

This was a year or so before ABBA released "Money Money Money".
I am in no doubt that "Very funny" means neither "Haha" nor "Peculiar":
It means "A lot of fun".

For a semi-illiterate guy I seem to have had a lot of literary friends!

David

davieddy · 2011-10-28, 02:29

... I feel like exercizing my perogative.

David

Dubslow · 2011-10-28, 02:32

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Originally Posted by davieddy

But I don't think anyone in UK, US, Canada or the Southern hemisphere
would have used "already" like that.

I would, and I would also say it's a relatively common usage. I'm pretty sure it's a recent evolution of the word, and it is most often used that way by kids, though as you can see, the older kids have grown up.

kladner · 2011-10-28, 02:37

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Originally Posted by Dubslow

I would, and I would also say it's a relatively common usage. I'm pretty sure it's a recent evolution of the word, and it is most often used that way by kids, though as you can see, the older kids have grown up.

This late 50-something US person uses it.

Dubslow · 2011-10-28, 02:48

I guess by recent I mean 20th century then. But that's still relatively recent.

Christenson · 2011-10-28, 03:13

Citation: Restaurant named "So Eat Already!" about 1985 in Bethlehem, PA, on the Lehigh side of the river. BDodson might remember and/or know it.

2011-10-28, 02:29	#40
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