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    GIMPS now has a Fermat prime number of members

    When George Woltman was asked whether this caused a conflict of interest, he replied,"Who the hell are you? Get away from me, and quit asking me stupid questions."

    Not sure if others will be as entertained reading that as I was writing it.

    Anyway, quick question. I'm on a Q6600, which was one of Intel's first quad-cores, basically 2 Core2Duos glued together. Since each Core2Duo has shared cache, I'm running one number on each sub-processor(or whatever you want to call it, 2 numbers, 1 to each Core2Duo on my Core2Quad). Anyway, my question is should I use both cores on the number, or just assign one core to each number? Either way, they'll only be running Prime95, but I'm not sure if the other core will aid the first one, or just "fight" with it.

    I'll await your answers with bated breath. (I tried baited breath, but worms don't taste very good)
    Last edited by jasong; 06-19-2009 at 01:43 AM. Reason: Shoot, can't edit the thread title. I meant GIMPS' Free-DC team now has Fermat prime number of members.

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