Require P-1 and other factoring work to be done on reliable machines

[Madpoo]

Originally Posted by tha

You are right that the main cause of the project, finding new Mersenne primes, is not going to be advanced one jota by this attempt. But this is also a unique 'distributed computing' project. It will just be interesting to verify how many clients produce unreliable results and how they effect the progress of the project. This may lead to new criteria for assignments and therefore indirectly speed up the project later.

Maybe Prime95 should do a test of a new system, doing a P-1 check where it should find a factor. Something that wouldn't take too long (or too much memory) to run, but still manages to do a somewhat decent test of the system.

Of course that would imply that whatever causes a system to miss a factor is always reproducible... might not be ultimately effective.

Does Prime95 still do a similar test like that for LL on a brand new install? I know it used to but I haven't tried it in a while.