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Message boards :
Aggie The Pew message board
(Message 125452)
Posted 1589 days ago by Iain Bethune
Hi folks,
As Mike and admin team know, after a month or so 'trial separation' from PG I've decided to call time on my involvement here. It's been a (mostly) fun 10 year adventure, and been a privilege to crunch with AtP in particular. I especially enjoyed the no-holds-barred irreverent banter, and it was also great to meet up with several of you in person.
I'll be leaving at least 1 of my Macs connected - after all there is still plenty of SOB work to be done! I may well be back, but not for a while...
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Message boards :
Aggie The Pew message board
(Message 123958)
Posted 1622 days ago by Iain Bethune
May everyone find peace and comfort this holiday season. Best wishes to all!
Cheers Rick
Couldn't have said it better myself...
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Message boards :
Aggie The Pew message board
(Message 123461)
Posted 1633 days ago by Iain Bethune
No idea about the rat-master, but I'm still lurking around too...
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Message boards :
News :
Genefer 3.3.4 now live
(Message 122551)
Posted 1660 days ago by Iain Bethune
The apps were kept in sync across all of the sub-projects, but the performance improvement and multithreading only works for n=21.
- Iain
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Message boards :
Aggie The Pew message board
(Message 121111)
Posted 1692 days ago by Iain Bethune
I spotted that there is a chap called Deano Montreuil from Suwanee, GA entered in this weekend's "Big Dog's Backyard Ultra". I wonder if it's the very same Deano who is a member of AtP?
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Number crunching :
Source code repositories
(Message 121016)
Posted 1696 days ago by Iain Bethune
Hi,
The latest version of the gcwsieve source code is available here: https://github.com/ibethune/gcwsieve
Cheers
- Iain
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Generalized Fermat Prime Search :
High CPU usage again: Genefer 21 3.19 GPU (OCLcudaGFN)
(Message 120956)
Posted 1700 days ago by Iain Bethune
I have confirmed the LD_PRELOAD hack still fixes it. This seems to affect all my machines (but I set up all of my machines very similarly, they're all running close to the same versions of everything.)
Can you let me know specifically what libraries you linked via LD_PRELOAD to resolve this?
Cheers
- Iain
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Message boards :
Aggie The Pew message board
(Message 120955)
Posted 1700 days ago by Iain Bethune
I also want to go to the Lagavulin distillery. Iain will give me crap about that. Got to love that smoky whisky.
What a waste of a trip ;)
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Message boards :
Generalized Fermat Prime Search :
Comprehensive GFN prime list for n=15 and above
(Message 120889)
Posted 1704 days ago by Iain Bethune
Yes but fortunately the error is a typo on the page http://www.primegrid.com/gfn_history.php#n15
As of 27th July 2018, there are 1114 known primes of the form b^2^15+1 = b^32768+1. is not correct, there are 1014 known primes.
Sorry, will fix that shortly!
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Message boards :
News :
Genefer 3.3.4 now live
(Message 120797)
Posted 1709 days ago by Iain Bethune
The latest release of genefer (3.3.4) is now released on BOINC labelled as app version 3.20. The client will download the new app automatically, no action is required on your part unless you are using app_info.xml (if you don't know what this means, don't worry).
The new version provides a speed-up of around 10% for AVX and FMA3 transforms for n=21, as well as providing support for multithreading. To enable it, create an app_config.xml file in your BOINC/projects/www.primegrid.com directory containing (for 2 threads per task)
<app_config>
<app_version>
<app_name>genefer</app_name>
<cmdline>-nt 2</cmdline>
<avg_ncpus>2</avg_ncpus>
<plan_class>cpuGFN21</plan_class>
</app_version>
</app_config>
Any problems or questions, let us know! Please note that as the new release does not affect the OCL code, the GPU app versions remain unchanged.
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