Sieve Discussions

[imwithid]

Does anyone know if there is a marginal benefit to the manual sieve system (using sr2sieve or jjsieve) over the automatic (BOINC)?

By benefit, I mean speed or accuracy as opposed to the ability to reserve a specific sieve segment.

[Freeze_XJ]

Sorry for reacting a bit slow :
There probably will be a little speed boost (no overhead from the BOINC wrapper), but it will probably be unnoticable, even when you keep track of the exact time a certain range runs... The power of BOINC is in userfriendlyness, and the power of the raw client in versatility. I'm not going to fumble for that last 0.001%, as it's easier to offset the difference by boosting my FSB with 1Mhz

[imwithid]

Sorry for reacting a bit slow :
There probably will be a little speed boost (no overhead from the BOINC wrapper), but it will probably be unnoticable, even when you keep track of the exact time a certain range runs... The power of BOINC is in userfriendlyness, and the power of the raw client in versatility. I'm not going to fumble for that last 0.001%, as it's easier to offset the difference by boosting my FSB with 1Mhz

Thanks. That helps a great deal. The potential time and effort wasted through the manual method I think is less preferred to that of the client handling it automatically if the efficiency is negligable. I'll stick with BOINC.

[ShoeLace]

using BOINC also means less change of 'hours wasted' becuase you didnt get to a machine to update its range..

i think manual really only has teh edge for non-networked machines.

[Death]

Install the latest SR2sieve software. This can be found at http://www.geocities.com/g_w_reynolds/sr2sieve/

geocities is dead. please update sierpinskisieve.com

Any references to the url http://www.geocities.com/g_w_reynolds/ should be replaced with the url http://sites.google.com/site/geoffre...olds/programs/.

[Death]

http://pgllr.mine.nu/software/sr2sieve/

sr2sieve-1.8.11-bin.zip

[philmoore]

Geoff said that sr2sieve-1.8.11 is faster if there are 4 or fewer sequences, but sr2sieve-1.8.10 is a little faster if there are more than 4 sequences.