The "(W)TF Depth Debate" state of the bunion

[davieddy]

Originally Posted by petrw1

There were over 2,000 in July....as of today under 1,700.
Is George no longer giving LL testers 25% DC?
Or is DC so like last year :)

Interesting, However the DC completion rate has remained around 115/day during this period. Countdown watchers may disagree, but this is a reasonable^TM rate, providing a useful source of work for CPUs like Brian-E's, (especially since TF by CPU is obsolete), and the chance of finding a prime per year only about 5x smaller than for first time LLs.

A drop in the number of assignments currently out is not all bad news:
since the completion rate hasn't dropped, assigments must be getting done faster which is a Good Thing^TM .

Originally Posted by Prime95

Correct. Perhaps, I should again give "Do what makes most sense" users a few DCs?

No George.
See above and below.
And any such move would be an admission that we can't sustain TF to 74 for all assigments above 63M, i.e. keep those pigs airborne without cheating.
If that were to happen, and it is already, you, Garo and Chris will owe me a massive grovelling apology^TM

Originally Posted by chalsall

Wouldn't hurt...

We "survived" the incident earlier this week where Primenet didn't recycle expiring exponents for a day; Primenet still didn't issuing anything for LLing not TFed to at least 74 and P-1ed. And the TFing is continuing to slowly pull ahead.

But perhaps a bit more of a lead would be advisable... Very easily accomplished in the short term by sending even only something like 10% of Primenet.WMS to DCing for a short while.

That swinging ban has given me time to carefully interpret your most valuable TF-level data. Some of this I will post elsewhere, or perhaps privately might lead to less rowdiness from the likes of Foetus Boy
It would be helpful if we could have the number of current LL assignments, like what Petrw quoted.

As you have conceded, every day at midnight it is touch and go whether or not we will run out of available exponents, and "a bit more of a lead would be advisable". Funny, I think I might have said that before.
Crucially, it would enable us to find out whether thís brinkmanship is holding back the assignment rate as I strongly suspect.

Anyway guys, it's good to be back, although the delay to my posts is tiresome in the extreme.

Bedtime!

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[chalsall]

Hey All...

This thread is the re-opening of the open debate between those who think we're TFing too far, and those who think we're doing OK.

For the record, I would very much appreciate it if discussion was civil, sincere and meaningful.

No YouTube links will be tolerated.

[chalsall]

Originally Posted by davieddy

As you have conceded, every day at midnight it is touch and go whether or not we will run out of available exponents, and "a bit more of a lead would be advisable". Funny, I think I might have said that before.

Yes. This is the nature of Primenet. It "inhales" deeply shortly after midnight UTC, and then slowly exhales throughout the rest of the day.

Consider it something like automated yoga breaths....

[Aramis Wyler]

I want to note that for the last several months my TF work has been exclusively in the LMH range, and will soon (~Dec 16) swing back to regular LL work. I know the work of one individual doesn't matter a whole lot, but in the past this debate has come down to some very narrow margins, and an additional 800 GHZD/Day is a sginificant increase in LLTF - enough to swing very narrow margins.

I occasionally feel compelled to apologize for moving all of my work into the LMH range just as we started going to 74 bits, but I will not because I still believe that the staggering increase in p-1 work was worth it.

[kracker]

Originally Posted by Aramis Wyler

I occasionally feel compelled to apologize for moving all of my work into the LMH range just as we started going to 74 bits, but I will not because I still believe that the staggering increase in p-1 work was worth it.

"staggering increase in p-1 work" Where? Haven't noticed on the charts lately.

[chalsall]

Originally Posted by kracker

"staggering increase in p-1 work" Where? Haven't noticed on the charts lately.

It's there.

A certain person brought forward some software which ran on GPUs involving P-1 work.

There is a private joke associated with this.

[Aramis Wyler]

Maybe 'staggering' is too dramatic for you, but it seems to me UncWilly by himself did about 5% of all the p-1 work gpu72's been turning out this last 6 months. Far more than I expected any one person to be able to do. I think that, considering we were getting behind in p-1 so badly, that my sacrificing ~5% of our LLTF throughput for a similar ~5% increase in p-1 throughput was worthwhile.

The cudap-1 program alters the balance a bit though. I'm going to focus on LLTF again, but if we got behind in P-1 I could just switch to that for a bit, or put one card on each duty if Chris thought that was better.

But yeah, I think Uncwilly's borg army has produced a really impressive amount of P-1 work this year, and I think it was worth it even if we lost a step on lltf for a time.

[kracker]

You can check monthly etc status on P-1 on gpu72.
https://www.gpu72.com/reports/workers/p-1/month/

[chalsall]

Originally Posted by Aramis Wyler

But yeah, I think Uncwilly's borg army has produced a really impressive amount of P-1 work this year, and I think it was worth it even if we lost a step on lltf for a time.

I was talking about Carl....

[davieddy]

Originally Posted by Aramis Wyler

I want to note that for the last several months my TF work has been exclusively in the LMH range, and will soon (~Dec 16) swing back to regular LL work. I know the work of one individual doesn't matter a whole lot, but in the past this debate has come down to some very narrow margins, and an additional 800 GHZD/Day is a sginificant increase in LLTF - enough to swing very narrow margins.

I occasionally feel compelled to apologize for moving all of my work into the LMH range just as we started going to 74 bits, but I will not because I still believe that the staggering increase in p-1 work was worth it.

Welcome back to the Prime Search from your flight of fancy!

800 GHzDays amounts to about 20 65M exponents taken from 73 to 74 bits does it not?
The daily TF work for the past months has been equivalent to 500 of same, so you will be contributing a valuable 4^ boost in firepower.

Now considering that the mvast majority of exponents below 74 bits have been allowed to languish on 71 bits, the current fire power is sufficient to take 300 exponents a day to 74.
Now since the rate of LL completion is a very steady 300/day, it would appear that we can neatly maintain the number of LLs in progress.

However the picture is not that rosy.
We have been taking about 340 to 74 a day, and TFassignments eat them all up. This seems all to the good, since we would like assignment to exceed completion by a bit.

But this is my argument: how come we are TFing 340 a day to 74, when the firepower can only manage 300, even if concentrated exclusively on the "virgin" exponents?
The answer is that we have beenhoming in on the exponents already TFed to 73, and these are running out fast.
TFing a recycled expo below 63M to 74 does not create a new assignment - it is squandering much needed firepower.

If you have half followed this, you will see that another to or three contributions like your 800 GHzD/D could be enough to get Chris out of his scrape,, at the cost of conceding the argument to me.

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[Aramis Wyler]

Originally Posted by davieddy

Welcome back to the Prime Search from your flight of fancy!

Thank you! Welcome back from your plight of exile.

Originally Posted by davieddy

800 GHzDays amounts to about 20 65M exponents taken from 73 to 74 bits does it not?

Yup, sounds about right.

Originally Posted by davieddy

Now considering that the mvast majority of exponents below 74 bits have been allowed to languish on 71 bits, the current fire power is sufficient to take 300 exponents a day to 74.
Now since the rate of LL completion is a very steady 300/day, it would appear that we can neatly maintain the number of LLs in progress.

Sounds good!

Originally Posted by davieddy

However the picture is not that rosy.
We have been taking about 340 to 74 a day, and TFassignments eat them all up. This seems all to the good, since we would like assignment to exceed completion by a bit.

Miracles!

Originally Posted by davieddy

But this is my argument: how come we are TFing 340 a day to 74, when the firepower can only manage 300, even if concentrated exclusively on the "virgin" exponents?
The answer is that we have beenhoming in on the exponents already TFed to 73, and these are running out fast.

OMG you're right! We've only got about 2000 available currently! We could be out in a week!

Originally Posted by davieddy

TFing a recycled expo below 63M to 74 does not create a new assignment - it is squandering much needed firepower.

Our ratio of Truth to Crap just took a major nosedive there, but that statement does not invalidate the truthiness of previous statements so lets just carry on like it didn't happen.

Originally Posted by davieddy

If you have half followed this, you will see that another to or three contributions like your 800 GHzD/D could be enough to get Chris out of his scrape,, at the cost of conceding the argument to me.

Ok so hrm, we have enough firepower to do 300/day at 71-74, but we're currently getting 340/day done because we're chewing up the low hanging fruits that we're almost out of. Hmm, yes. So we're currently running up a lead (340/day surpassing the 300/day needed) but soon we'll only be able to tread water at 300/day because there's no way we can keep up this 340/day stuff. Hmm. So... it seems like then we're in good shape, because we're going to run up a good lead until the point were we can only keep up with assignments and hold on to (but not improve) our significant lead.

Sounds like we've exactly nailed the amount of TF we should be doing. An impressive feat!