New Year Cleaning

Announced is a open end challenge at PPSElow Proth Prime Search Project from January first until the port is empty and no pending workunits remain. I suggest we start at 00:00 UTC to start timely with the cleanup ;-)

More about Proth Prime Search can be found here. News and infos about the PRPNet client can be found here.

To take part, you have to activate the following lines in prpclient.ini:

18:00 UTC pls

It's called New Year Cleaning, so I'd expect it to start at 0:00 UTC. ;)
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I'm in favour of 0:00 UTC.

Sorry, I've already started - put extra ~40 cores (mostly AVX) there...for another 40 hours if all goes well. Those will not be available later and are non-BOINC hosts.

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My stats

Lets be realistic: 00:00 UTC is New Year in any country, but insted to be near our computers most of us will be celebrating :)
So lets pronounce start for 12 h , or at 12:00 UTC or as suggested 18:00UT ( as many challenges start as usual)
Since it will be 1.1 2013, and it is New Year, so name of challenge is true :)
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92*10^^1585996-1 NEAR-REPDIGIT PRIME :) :) :)
4 * 650^⁴⁹⁸¹⁰¹-1 CRUS PRIME
2022202116^¹³¹⁰⁷²+1 GENERALIZED FERMAT
Proud member of team Aggie The Pew. Go Aggie!

I vote for 00:00:00 1-Jan-2013 UTC. We can't pick a time zone that suits everyone, and since this challenge is symbolically tied to the new year, midnight UTC seems as good as any. Just my 2 pence/cents/euros/pesos/ngultrum.

Happy new year everyone, whenever it greets you.

--Gary

00:00 UTC. The lead is already up to ~443,000 out of 449,999. There will be nothing left if we delay the start. Lets clear this port!

Happy New Year everyone!
The Prime Factors of 2013 :
3 • 11 • 61
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Sorry Reb,
the majority votes for 00:00 UTC
therefore the starting time remains as it is announced
Have a nice weekend

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Sysadm@Nbg
my current lucky number: 113856050^65536 + 1
PSA-PRPNet-Stats-URL: http://u-g-f.de/PRPNet/

Let's see if we can blast the port down before the BOINC challenge starts :)
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less than 12 hours left ...

... first one in down under and oceania have made it into 2013
Happy New Year!
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Sysadm@Nbg
my current lucky number: 113856050^65536 + 1
PSA-PRPNet-Stats-URL: http://u-g-f.de/PRPNet/

I've busted out my five year old MacIntel laptop and started it on the port as well as my desktop. In order to get the laptop to work, I had to comment out phrot and both versions of PFGW included in 5.2.2. Hopefully that doesn't ruin anything (although I think it will only matter if it finds a prime, which I doubt it will since it is taking about 4min/WU).
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The PPSLow server is estimating 10 days before it runs out of work:
http://prpnet.mine.nu:12000/server_stats.html
So should finish the challenge on about the 10th of January.
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as far as I can judge from the log files, the start everything went well
Let's clear up quickly the port - BOINC challenge is comming soon ...
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Sysadm@Nbg
my current lucky number: 113856050^65536 + 1
PSA-PRPNet-Stats-URL: http://u-g-f.de/PRPNet/

The only problem *I* had at the start was due to traffic and my getting home 10 minutes late. Why, why, WHY!!! I'll never get those 10 minutes back! AAAUGH!!

Just kidding. All is well. At least no worse than usual around here. :-)

Thanks for running the challenge. Let's finish 'er off quickly.

--Gary

So should finish the challenge on about the 10th of January.

!! notice !!

I just unlocked multiple IPs

Please pay attention to the correct URL or use the following links
- general stats: http://u-g-f.de/PRPNet/
- challenge stats: http://u-g-f.de/PRPNet/challenge_stats.php

The URLs are case sensitive !!
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Sysadm@Nbg
my current lucky number: 113856050^65536 + 1
PSA-PRPNet-Stats-URL: http://u-g-f.de/PRPNet/

And...EMPTY.
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My stats

And...EMPTY.

Good job getting the port down before the BOINC challenge everyone!
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Good job getting the port down before the BOINC challenge everyone!

With 20+ hours to spare! Very nice.

Now it's time to prepare some snake....yum

Does it taste like chicken or maybe cow?

The last 23 tasks have just been reassigned to one of my old Celeron notebooks. Should be done in 6 hours. :)
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dont hurry - I am today (saturday) offline / away from my servers
I can finish stats not before tomorrow (sunday)

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Sysadm@Nbg
my current lucky number: 113856050^65536 + 1
PSA-PRPNet-Stats-URL: http://u-g-f.de/PRPNet/

Just in time for the BOINC Challenge ended ours. And now the few non-critical resends processed and the port is really empty so that the statistics can be completed.

Congratulation to Aggie_The_Pew and ardo for winnig this cleanup race

The top five are as follows:

Remarkably clean running for AtP with virtually no flying cow paddies to avoid! :-)

And thanks to Sysadm@Nbg for administering the challenge. Absolutely flawless. Bravo!!

--Gary