GIMPS BREAKS THE 60000 MACHINE MARK

[lpmurray]

The virtual machine's sustained throughput* is currently 10975 billion floating point operations per second (gigaflops), or 911.7 CPU years (Pentium 90Mhz) computing time per day. For the testing of Mersenne numbers, this is equivalent to 391 Cray T916 supercomputers, or 195.5 of Cray's most powerful T932 supercomputers, at peak power. As such, PrimeNet ranks among the most powerful computers in the world. (*Measured in calibrated P5 90Mhz, 32.98 MFLOP units: 25658999 FPO / 0.778s using 256k FFT.)

For more information, please see the GIMPS home page, the PrimeNet Statistics or the PrimeNet Project Credits.

Current PrimeNet Atomic Clock UTC Time is Saturday 03 January 2004, 23:05:35





------- Internet CPU and Server Resources -------

Machines Applied on 42635 Accounts Server Synchronization 23 Sep 2003 14:22

Intel Pentium 4 : 19090
AMD Athlon : 25085
Intel Pentium III : 8483
Intel Pentium II : 1774
Intel Celeron : 4647
Intel Pentium Pro : 135
Intel Pentium : 616
AMD K6 : 571
Intel 486 : 36
Cyrix : 354
Unspecified type : 218
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TOTAL : 61009

WITH THIS MILESTONE WE'RE CLOSE TO ALSO BREAKING 11000 GFLOPS

[lpmurray]

Current PrimeNet Atomic Clock UTC Time is Wednesday 07 January 2004, 05:29:00



------- Internet CPU and Server Resources -------

Machines Applied on 43393 Accounts Server Synchronization 23 Sep 2003 14:22

Intel Pentium 4...........19373
AMD Athlon................25684
Intel Pentium III...........8499
Intel Pentium II............1794
Intel Celeron...............4697
Intel Pentium Pro...........135
Intel Pentium................622
AMD K6.......................581
Intel 486.......................32
Cyrix...........................364
Unspecified type............220
---------------------- -------
TOTAL : 62001

[Paulie]

What kind of work are these new machines grabbing? A couple thousand machines in a couple weeks is quite a lot of assignments.

Is it individuals or teams?

[GP2]

Originally posted by Paulie
What kind of work are these new machines grabbing? A couple thousand machines in a couple weeks is quite a lot of assignments.

It seems that much of it is first-time LL tests, since the leading edge of LL testing has bumped up faster than normal:
http://opteron.mersenneforum.org/png/leading_edge.png

That's logical since the great majority of new machines since M40 are fairly fast machines, Athlons and P4s, with only a small fraction being P3s and Celerons:
http://opteron.mersenneforum.org/png/machines.png

So if these new machines are set to the default "whatever work makes the most sense", it's logical that they'd be doing first-time LL testing.