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"Tony"
Sep 2014
London, UK
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Brian V.'s latest triumph is to poach 53891441 just 2 hours and 20 minutes before ATH delivered the result of his assignment... ![]() |
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#46 | |
6809 > 6502
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Aug 2003
101ร103 Posts
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#47 |
Bamboozled!
"๐บ๐๐ท๐ท๐ญ"
May 2003
Down not across
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Poachers could be discouraged, perhaps, if the database were changed in such a way that their submissions were held in a queue and received no acknowledgement of any form until the original assignment had expired. After expiry full credit would be given.
Would-be poachers would have to ask themselves a question: do I feel lucky? |
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#48 |
Undefined
"The unspeakable one"
Jun 2006
My evil lair
6,679 Posts |
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That could just encourage more poachers thinking a particular "important" assignment isn't being worked on.
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#49 |
Bamboozled!
"๐บ๐๐ท๐ท๐ญ"
May 2003
Down not across
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#50 |
Nov 2014
3·13 Posts |
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Hi,
I have a pretty crappy GPU in my laptop, but at least I can run mfaktc on it, when my laptop is running and connected to the power. This will contribute quite irregularly, sometimes, there might 2 weeks of no contribution, then it runs for 24h straight. So I wrote a script which gets a few assignments from here and then reports it immediately as results become available. However, it seems the sub-project SrBase is not reporting results immediately, so now it has happened twice in completly different ranges (144M and 707M) that I poached "SrBase", for instance here: https://www.mersenne.org/report_expo...4413551&full=1 How to properly do this? Do I actually need to assign AID for every single TF assignment? Will this save me from being poached by SrBase (or the other way round)? |
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#51 |
Romulan Interpreter
"name field"
Jun 2011
Thailand
240418 Posts |
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Under Windows? Try Misfit. There are equivalent py scripts for Linux too but somebody else may help you there. You don't need to reinvent the wheel, there are already tools that can automate the process of getting TF work and reporting TF results, quite well and "poaching safe". On the other hand, don't ruin your day about occasionally poaching SRBase, that is an account with many users behind, turning lots of work daily, they won't see it
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#52 |
Nov 2014
1001112 Posts |
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I'm running Linux and the bash script took me at most 1 hour, writing the script was not the problem. The problem is that there is no way for me to know what SRBase is up to because they don't get assignments and they submit results only every few months in very large batches. After my first "collision", I made sure to choose a range where I have seen no progress in the last 90 days with mersenne.ca status pages (example), but this doesn't help :(
The only solution I see so far is not doing the low bitlevels <74 anymore because SrBase seems to do a "breadth-first" approach. But then, I will find less factors :) |
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#53 |
Romulan Interpreter
"name field"
Jun 2011
Thailand
10,273 Posts |
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But then, TF-ing at the PRP front will help GIMPS more... :)
Edit: about your script, does it reserve the assignments? Or only picks from the list? (the page you linked is not the reservation page, but the status one, it shows how far factored. If properly reserved, SRBase won't step on you -- they also do proper reservation, albeit in a different way, due to their higher volumes). Last fiddled with by LaurV on 2020-11-10 at 14:48 |
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#54 | |
Nov 2014
3910 Posts |
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(So far, I just grabbed the first 10 available exponents from mersenne.org/report_factoring_effort in worktodo.txt format and made sure, that results are submitted at least once per day. If the worktodo.txt gets older than 1 day, I just downloaded it again.) Last fiddled with by gLauss on 2020-11-10 at 15:14 |
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#55 |
Oct 2020
Terre Haute, IN
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So I was just browsing this thread and got to wondering...would admins frown upon someone randomly checking on exponents outside the upper range of numbers currently being checked by GIMPS participants? I've been tossing around an idea on possible mathematical correlations among known Mersenne primes and was wanting to check a few specific exponents above the current range that is being searched to see if my idea might hold water.
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