New Prime95

[Joe O]

Has anyone besides Frodo42 tried this?
Does anyone have timings before and after available?
It should be possible to simply:
1) stop your client
2) Back up your folder, just in case
3) replace your old executable with the new executable (executable only, not your prime.txt)
4) start your client
5) make sure you resumed where you left off and are still connected to the SB server and not to mersenne.org instead.

[umccullough]

Guess I better get on the bandwagon and update the Haiku port(s)

[imwithid]

Apparently, Prime95 26.4 has been out for about a few days now. So far, this one seems to have addressed the minor bugs from the last release without any problems.

[umccullough]

<sigh>

Guess I'll have to update the Haiku port(s) again...

[imwithid]

Wow, I just upgraded one of my machines with Prime95 26.4 and what a boost! From .077 to .055 on a Core2 4300 @ 1.8Ghz (relatively clean install). That's almost a 30% boost! I may be paranoid to want to finish my workers before upgrading but such an increase in performance is too tempting. This is far better than the 3-5% average improvement in the 25.x series of updates. I've got a Quad Core AMD Phenom that I'm curious how well it will perform after these updates (perhaps none, but worth a try).

[tqft]

The current download from seventeenorbust.com for linux appears to be for 263 dated 18 Oct 2010 - should I wait for 264 or upgrade now?

[Joe O]

I haven't sent Louis the updated packages to post. Do you need the package or are you already running Prime95? If you are already running Prime95 then just download the new executable. If you are just starting, then download the package, and replace the executable before startiing. If you are just starting then please make sure that your userid is correct in the prime.txt file so that you will get credit for your work.