starting mprime at boot time on a multicore pc

[tha]

I am trying to start up mprime at boot time but have not been able to do it the way it should be done.

Currently I start up mprime when a user logs in using the sessions functionality. I want to start at boot time however, regardless of users being logged in or not.

I use the latest version of Ubuntu (which is Debian based) on a Quad core processor. I saw some scripts posted here, but they don't seem to work on multiprocessor machines, since mprime still needs to be started up 4 times, each time with a different affinity. The script only allows only one copy.

Anyone been succesful starting mprime at boot on a multiprocessor machine?

[TimSorbet]

Originally Posted by tha

I am trying to start up mprime at boot time but have not been able to do it the way it should be done.

Currently I start up mprime when a user logs in using the sessions functionality. I want to start at boot time however, regardless of users being logged in or not.

I use the latest version of Ubuntu (which is Debian based) on a Quad core processor. I saw some scripts posted here, but they don't seem to work on multiprocessor machines, since mprime still needs to be started up 4 times, each time with a different affinity. The script only allows only one copy.

Anyone been succesful starting mprime at boot on a multiprocessor machine?

Perhaps you could have four folders of mprime and run four copies of the mentioned script. I haven't used mprime and don't know what script you're talking about, but I do have experience with Prime95...hope I'm not saying anything that will give you problems or just plain won't work.

[tha]

Originally Posted by Mini-Geek

Perhaps you could have four folders of mprime and run four copies of the mentioned script. I haven't used mprime and don't know what script you're talking about, but I do have experience with Prime95...hope I'm not saying anything that will give you problems or just plain won't work.

I don't know, that seems like a workaround just like my current solution. Best possible strategy would be a mprime version that could handle multiple threads like prime95. Since that is not available the next best thing would be starting up four instances at boot time each with it's own affinity. So I hope someone has done that and can help me.

[TimSorbet]

Originally Posted by tha

I don't know, that seems like a workaround just like my current solution. Best possible strategy would be a mprime version that could handle multiple threads like prime95. Since that is not available the next best thing would be starting up four instances at boot time each with it's own affinity. So I hope someone has done that and can help me.

Does mprime 25.6 not support more threads?
ftp://mersenne.org/gimps/mprime256.tar.gz

[ET_]

Originally Posted by Mini-Geek

Does mprime 25.6 not support more threads?
ftp://mersenne.org/gimps/mprime256.tar.gz

It does :-)

Luigi

[pegaso56]

I was running an exponent for nearly 100 days in my Athlon64 under opensuse. When the exponent reached 38670000, mprime reset from 0 and started again. Anyone knows something similar??, ty

[joblack]

Originally Posted by tha

I don't know, that seems like a workaround just like my current solution. Best possible strategy would be a mprime version that could handle multiple threads like prime95. Since that is not available the next best thing would be starting up four instances at boot time each with it's own affinity. So I hope someone has done that and can help me.

Use the .27 version ... you can use a new init script (normally in /etc/init.d ) and create a softlink in the init directory (/etc/rc2.d in debian).