What program?

[ThomRuley]

I would like to get involved in LMH beyond 79.3M, but what program should I use? Where would I find the program?

[nfortino]

Originally Posted by ThomRuley

I would like to get involved in LMH beyond 79.3M, but what program should I use? Where would I find the program?

At the current time, we use Prime95 by manually putting the line AdvancedFactor=start_exponent,end_exponent,b1,b2
into worktodo.ini where b1 and b2 are the starting bit and the ending bit inclusive. However, Prime95 misses some factors (by some indications lots) for exponents above 79300000. Also, advanced factor is a slow, out of date feature. At some point, someone may make a program with comparable speed to Prime95 to do this job.

[ET_]

Originally Posted by nfortino

At the current time, we use Prime95 by manually putting the line AdvancedFactor=start_exponent,end_exponent,b1,b2
into worktodo.ini where b1 and b2 are the starting bit and the ending bit inclusive. However, Prime95 misses some factors (by some indications lots) for exponents above 79300000. Also, advanced factor is a slow, out of date feature. At some point, someone may make a program with comparable speed to Prime95 to do this job.

On Will Edginton's page you can find the "mers" package. mersfacgmp does what we need, altough it's still slower than Prime95.

I'm trying some speed improvements on my "factor3" program, and I know nfortino is going to work on it as well

Luigi

[xenon]

Is factor3_2 source code available for download?

[ET_]

Originally Posted by xenon

Is factor3_2 source code available for download?

Not yet, but if you PM me youremail I'll send it to you.

Obviously if you propose optimizations you will be acknowledged

Luigi