Sooo...

[Beyond]

..what's the low-down on this project. Anyone still running, involved with this project?

[Citrix]

Yes still involved. Project is still going on.

Website at

http://www.mersenneforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=48

Citrix
(Project Admin)

[Beyond]

[Beyond]

Question, having run a few prime search projects, I see you are using both PRP and LLR, so is this search for prime of the form k*2^n+1 or k*2^n-1. Things may have changed but was under the impression LLR_net only tested k*2^n-1?


*never mind*

[rel279]

The last casp 6 protien was killin my old boxen so decided to do a little seiving for PSP great bunch of folks there very helpfull.



PS: my handle there is Rick_E.... I'll join FreeDC Team there others should give it a try. Can't figger how to change names my sign in on mersiene boards is Rick_E also.

[Chinasaur]

Hey rel279

Be most welcome and we're glad you're joining up!

[rel279]

Ya but it's lonly over here I got Free-DC too 2nd but could use some help for #1


P.S I use Rick_E as my handle under PSP

[PCZ]

I started to do this project but citrix pissed around with the scores.

I suddenly lost more than half my points and there was also an odd message about giving my old and new mersenne forum ID's.
Since I didn't change my ID I fail to see how I could give a new and an old one.

[rel279]

There was a forum change that was the old and new id thing.....new forum would not except rel279 sooooo my Rick_E handle.

I only do seiving there and my points are the same as for llr I don't have a clue.

[ltd]

One very late answer to the stats thing.
Maybe somebody is interested.

The stats had been changed. The reason was that we found out that the
low n ( less then n=500000) where overweighted.
So i modified the stats fomula to have a better reflection of the effort put into
LLR. So all returned results got a new point value. Even with the total
points beeing cut half all the people that entered the project after we had
passed n=500000 had an advantage as their results have more weight now.

@PCZ: The change did not still you any points instead it gave you a boost.

Lars

[PCZ]

ltd
I lost most of my points on the 10th June

[ltd]

That the point.
Everybody has "lost" most of his points on the 10th.
As i had a lot of small n calculated before i "lost" even more
points.
I even lost much more points due to the fact that the old stats modell
gave a bonus of 5000 later 500 points for a prime found.
That was removed also so i really lost a lot of points.

It looks only as if the normal points where lost but they have only be recalculated and higher n (as you have calculated) have a higher value now.

Edit:

One more thing. The discussion we have now only shows that i was not able
to describe my intentions good enough before i introduced the changes.
I am sorry about that but now it is a little bit late.
With my answer i wanted only to make clear that there was no means to be in any
way unfair to any contributor of the PSP project. If anyone feels different about that
i apologize.

Lars