Next Available Range

[opyrt]

Thank you guys!

Seems much better.

[wolfemancs]

In the last year (according to the comments on http://www.sierpinskisieve.com/complete.php?all=1 PrimeGrid has gone from 31,587,913 on March 15, 2009, to very near 70,000,000 with the challenge that concluded today.

The manual effort was given back 70-80P on March 31 last year and is currently at 70.96P (last reserved). Would it make sense to give some of this range back to PrimeGrid? Maybe leave the manual sieve another years worth of work and return 72-80 to PrimeGrid?

At the current pace PrimeGrid will be working on the 100P range that you guys didn't think was very profitable before the manual effort even breaks 71.5P leaving 8.5P of "useful" work unsieved while PrimeGrid is doing less useful work.

Even at 65-70P, and even with a 64 bit AMD machine (much better siever than LLR machine), if I decide that all I care about is SoB, and not PSP, it's becoming very close to a push as to whether it's more efficient to sieve or LLR. If PrimeGrid has to bump to 80P it tips even more toward LLR tests.

In the interests of full disclosure, I'm a PrimeGrid siever, not a manual siever, so feel free to ignore me. :-)

[Joe O]

71000000 72000000 is being held for the manual sieve effort.
We've already assigned
72000000 73000000 PrimeGrid
and
73000000 74000000 OnHold will go to whoever needs it first

[Joe O]

73000000 74000000 has just been marked for PrimeGrid

74000000 75000000 is the next available block

If PrimeGrid gets another block done in 4 days, then I will consider giving them 71000000 72000000 and assigning the manual sieve effort 75000000 76000000
Perhaps I should have done that today.