someone stole my screwdriver

fivemack · 2011-07-21, 08:21

Is bcheffin's tool running on all sequences including ones that have been reserved for other projects?

I was a little surprised this morning to find that sequence 515028 had been taken a hundred iterations further than I'd had it ... I put my factors into the database and it was left there as a down-driver.

For me, at least part of the goal of the enormous attack on below-400 sequences was the chance to get some terminations; if my sequences are going to be run on by someone else as soon as I put them in the database, this goal goes away.

schickel · 2011-07-21, 09:18

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Originally Posted by fivemack

Is bcheffin's tool running on all sequences including ones that have been reserved for other projects?

Without a close read of the code (just going by a cursory glance and the README), if a sequence is not reserved in the main thread and it has a composite under the current threshhold, the composite will be factored.

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I was a little surprised this morning to find that sequence 515028 had been taken a hundred iterations further than I'd had it ... I put my factors into the database and it was left there as a down-driver.

If it was under the threshhold, it would have been factored if the size of the reamining composite was small enough.

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For me, at least part of the goal of the enormous attack on below-400 sequences was the chance to get some terminations; if my sequences are going to be run on by someone else as soon as I put them in the database, this goal goes away.

I wouldn't like losing your contribution to the project.

Maybe Ben could take the current sequences for Project 400 from his master list so they don't get worked on. This would probably be easiest, since there is not a sticky post at the top of the thread with a list of the current reservations. (And I would like to keep the project structured the way it is, since not all the sequences in this project will end up reserved in the main thread.)

schickel · 2011-07-21, 11:14

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Originally Posted by schickel

This would probably be easiest, since there is not a sticky post at the top of the [Project 400] thread with a list of the current reservations. (And I would like to keep the project structured the way it is, since not all the sequences in this project will end up reserved in the main thread.)

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Originally Posted by fivemack

reserving 63828 256950 435720 119472 754320 702696 (sequences from the <400 project without drivers)

This is another way.

Yet another way would be to not upload anything that puts a sequence at risk of having a small enough copmposite that the workers would pick it up. I'll do it whichever way makes the most sense to everyone else....

bchaffin · 2011-07-21, 14:54

I checked my logs and yes, that was me -- sorry. I only track the main reservations thread because I can automatically parse the top post. I didn't try to avoid the project-400 sequences because in general they're all way over my threshold, but in this case your sequence had decreased and so the workers picked it up.

I certainly don't want to steal the fun from anyone -- sorry fivemack. I have manually removed all the remaining project-400 sequences from my list until the subproject is done. If there are any others you want me to stay away from (which are not mentioned in the main reservations thread), let me know.

The current code will factor anything from c106 down, and up to c110 if there is a downdriver. Anything above that is safe from the workers.

fivemack · 2011-07-22, 09:10

Many thanks

fivemack · 2011-08-27, 21:26

It's happened again on 741450 - I left it at about iteration 1140 this morning and it's now at 1236. It's reserved in the first post in the reservations thread.

bchaffin · 2011-08-27, 22:51

Checked my logs, not me this time.

fivemack · 2011-08-28, 21:09

I'm sorry, that read as blaming you and I didn't mean to. We know there's someone contributing to the database without reading this forum, since one of the intermediate steps in 4788 got factors submitted shortly before the forum-people had finished sieving it.

schickel · 2011-08-29, 05:44

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Originally Posted by fivemack

I'm sorry, that read as blaming you and I didn't mean to. We know there's someone contributing to the database without reading this forum, since one of the intermediate steps in 4788 got factors submitted shortly before the forum-people had finished sieving it.

Well, I wish that someone would stop doing stuff like that.

If they want to do some factoring, there are several sequences that I would like to see get some heavy duty help.....

unconnected · 2011-08-30, 06:07

Someone actively works on 933436 in the FactorDB. I need to say that the sequence has advanced far from the current state.vanced far from the current state.

Andi47 · 2011-11-19, 05:58

Seems there is some downdriver hunter stepping on my toes with both feet. 530082 is reserved by me (as of now, I will unreserve it); someone seems to have thrown in quite some computing power (at least a C2D, as he is faster than me) to advance it ~100 steps further than me.

2011-07-21, 08:21	#1
fivemack (loop (#_fork)) Feb 2006 Cambridge, England 14353₈ Posts	someone stole my screwdriver Is bcheffin's tool running on all sequences including ones that have been reserved for other projects? I was a little surprised this morning to find that sequence 515028 had been taken a hundred iterations further than I'd had it ... I put my factors into the database and it was left there as a down-driver. For me, at least part of the goal of the enormous attack on below-400 sequences was the chance to get some terminations; if my sequences are going to be run on by someone else as soon as I put them in the database, this goal goes away.

2011-08-27, 21:26	#6
fivemack (loop (#_fork)) Feb 2006 Cambridge, England 6,379 Posts	It's happened again on 741450 - I left it at about iteration 1140 this morning and it's now at 1236. It's reserved in the first post in the reservations thread. Last fiddled with by fivemack on 2011-08-27 at 21:26

2011-08-28, 21:09	#8
fivemack (loop (#_fork)) Feb 2006 Cambridge, England 6,379 Posts	I'm sorry, that read as blaming you and I didn't mean to. We know there's someone contributing to the database without reading this forum, since one of the intermediate steps in 4788 got factors submitted shortly before the forum-people had finished sieving it. Last fiddled with by fivemack on 2011-08-28 at 21:10

2011-11-19, 05:58	#11
Andi47 Oct 2004 Austria 2·17·73 Posts	Seems there is some downdriver hunter stepping on my toes with both feet. 530082 is reserved by me (as of now, I will unreserve it); someone seems to have thrown in quite some computing power (at least a C2D, as he is faster than me) to advance it ~100 steps further than me. Last fiddled with by Andi47 on 2011-11-19 at 06:00

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