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VBCurtis · 2013-09-21, 23:48

The 162 has had more-than-optimal ECM, no need to continue. The extra 2000 at 2e8 was polite, imo, when using external NFS resources.

The GPUers should give 5-7 days each (3 of us searching, so 15-20 GPU-days in total) in poly search, so we should have a poly Thursday or Friday.

We'd expect the C172 to take about 4x as long to NFS, so it demands roughly 4x as much ECM as the 162? Something like 15k curves at 11e7 and 20-25k at 2e8/26e7? If this is a decent estimate, no wonder you say weeks to months of ECM before this one is ready.

2013-09-21, 23:48	#93
VBCurtis "Curtis" Feb 2005 Riverside, CA 5²·11·17 Posts	The 162 has had more-than-optimal ECM, no need to continue. The extra 2000 at 2e8 was polite, imo, when using external NFS resources. The GPUers should give 5-7 days each (3 of us searching, so 15-20 GPU-days in total) in poly search, so we should have a poly Thursday or Friday. We'd expect the C172 to take about 4x as long to NFS, so it demands roughly 4x as much ECM as the 162? Something like 15k curves at 11e7 and 20-25k at 2e8/26e7? If this is a decent estimate, no wonder you say weeks to months of ECM before this one is ready.