... Did I miss something? I still cannot find a linux dev_build with a big modular sieve. Sorry to be greedy, but it's frustrating to have linux cycles to hand...
894
gchil0
Jul 2, 2002 6:40 am
Sorry, I sent the email asking for the latest source from Jim, then completely forgot about it. Jim: Is the latest source ready for a linux compile, or...
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Jim Fougeron
jim_fougeron
Jul 2, 2002 10:55 am
... What is in the files area (and the latest build which is on my PC's) is not ready for a Linux build at all. The configure scripts need editing (new files...
896
djbroadhurst
Jul 3, 2002 3:33 am
I should have said (I always forget the good news) that Greg's old linux build is A1OK for me in all respects save the modular sieve limitation to 31 bits. I...
897
Jim Fougeron
jim_fougeron
Jul 3, 2002 11:10 am
If that is the case, and if Greg still has a buildable environment of files which built that version, then he may simply be able to insert the current...
898
gchil0
Jul 3, 2002 4:26 pm
Tonight I'll pull the stable source code off the website (20020129) and try it. Wait...isn't it in the 20020311 DEV source on the website? I'll try to...
899
jim_fougeron
Jul 3, 2002 5:26 pm
The > 31 bit mod factoring should be in either of those "stable" releases I believe. I think that Phil worked on this last year (November or December rings a...
900
gchil0
Jul 3, 2002 11:15 pm
Done. Look for 20020311-pfgw-linux-dev.gz in the files area. Previous: [childers test]$ 20020123-pfgw-linux-dev "-f1000{5016}" "-qPhi(5016,12)" PFGW Version...
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Jim Fougeron
jim_fougeron
Jul 3, 2002 11:35 pm
Greg, You may want to look long and hard and make sure that the "Phil - **** " text is not being output. I think it was wrapped in #ifdef (DEBUG) .... #endif...
902
gchil0
Jul 4, 2002 3:01 am
Jim, That code is enclosed in #if !defined (NDEBUG) ... #endif so it has to be explicitly disabled. You may want to consider using an #ifdef instead so we...
903
Markus Frind
markusff
Jul 4, 2002 4:18 am
I have looked through the pfgw.txt and searched these forums , but i see no information on what happens when pfgw runs on a system with duel cpu's. Is it...
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Markus Frind
markusff
Jul 4, 2002 4:23 am
I should clarify my question more. Some of the other prime programs had command line switches to run different instances on different machines, and the...
905
djbroadhurst
Jul 4, 2002 8:53 am
... [This is from part of a check for Mike Oakes of his huge Einstein-Mersenne gap] David (happy bunny)...
906
Jim Fougeron
jim_fougeron
Jul 4, 2002 12:34 pm
I run it all the time on 2 CPU's. It works fine. Now that being said, we could squeeze just a little more (1 - 2% more) from one of the running instances if...
907
Phil Carmody
thefatphil
Jul 4, 2002 2:48 pm
Regarding modular trial division, and taking on a normal... How does a (shallow) P-1 test sound? Sometimes it's not worth trial dividing really deeply, and a...
908
Jim Fougeron
jim_fougeron
Jul 4, 2002 5:11 pm
... It could be, but it will be much less "generic" useful than it is with GIMPS. In GIMPS, you know one larger prime factor of the P-1. This allows using...
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Phil Carmody
thefatphil
Jul 5, 2002 8:41 am
From: Jim Fougeron <jfoug@...> ... Woh! steady on! I was thinking B1=2000, B2=50000, or even less, say. Sure, this only catches: Finding 2000/50000-smooth...
910
tech_newsletters
tech_newslet...
Aug 5, 2002 7:55 am
Hello, I am trying to use the libgmp-3.dll with the gmp.h included in the 20020421_FULL_SRC.zip source distribution. My goal is to write a simple GMP based...
911
jim_fougeron
Aug 5, 2002 2:07 pm
Using GMP within VC as laid out in the PFGW project is not 100% straight forward, but it does work. 1. The GMP dll has been built without any import library....
912
tech_newsletters
tech_newslet...
Aug 5, 2002 5:47 pm
Jim, I continue to recieve errors. I think it is since I do not know how to properly link the .a and .dll files. VS's docs are unclear to me. I get the same...
913
jim_fougeron
Aug 5, 2002 6:05 pm
I use #pragma comment (lib, "libgmp.a") and the others, and then you have to have the .a files in the current directory, or have them in the path of the...
914
mgrogue
Aug 7, 2002 12:58 pm
NewPGen sieves a variety of forms of numbers, namely Proth and primorial forms and there variations. There are, of course, many other forms of numbers in...
915
harvey563
Aug 7, 2002 10:07 pm
My P4 1.2G running WinPfgw ver 1.2.1.1 with -a0 5011^5000*5000^5011-1 is composite: [A9102090288C579] (279.580000 seconds) with -a1 5011^5000*5000^5011-1 is...
916
Phil Carmody
thefatphil
Aug 12, 2002 11:03 am
I just downloaded the latest linux dev release, 2129810 dev-openpfgw-20020311.zip did a ./configure, and then : <<< phil@gigaspaz:openpfgw$ make make -C...
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gchil0
Aug 12, 2002 4:01 pm
Since you have GMP already on your system, as you said, it shouldn't be built. Actually, configure doesn't properly configure GMP, so it wouldn't work anyway....
918
Phil Carmody
thefatphil
Aug 13, 2002 12:40 pm
... I just hacked the line out of the makefile in the end, and created a symlink to the system header file. The funny thing is that configure claims that it...
919
jim_fougeron
Aug 14, 2002 4:49 pm
I now have a 2ghz P4 at work, so expect (no, demand ;) a good working version within a few weeks. It may take a little while, because I am so damn busy right...
920
harvey563
Aug 14, 2002 8:13 pm
The following from the low end of the 5000 database test composite in 20020515 WinPFGW, on my P4 1.5g: -a0 6*13^26195+1 is composite:...
921
jim_fougeron
Aug 14, 2002 8:22 pm
Thanks for the list of smaller (quicker to run) problem numbers. Jim....
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djbroadhurst
Aug 15, 2002 1:40 am
... which is confirmed by Pari-GP. Please consider withdrawing ... from the Caldwell database. How did this false primality claim occur? It is clear from your...
