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    Seventeen or Bust drive

    Louie Helm has announced a two-month drive at Seventeen or Bust in an attempt to find another prime (or two or three) to help solve the Sierpinski problem:
    http://www.seventeenorbust.com/
    This project found their last prime just over six years ago at 3.9 million digits. Their status page shows that some candidates have been now searched up to 7.8 million digits. They certainly seem overdue for a prime.

    For newcomers, this project uses the Prime95 software, but connecting to a different server. An alternative platform is also set up as a BOINC project under Primegrid:
    http://www.primegrid.com/

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    Re: Seventeen or Bust drive

    I'm running it now


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    Re: Seventeen or Bust drive

    The client is based on Prime95 software meaning that it can detect all cores even on a 80-core machine. AVX Intel processors are a must with HT-off, no HT-on, ok?
    I don't know if there's is a SETI.USA team created.
    Also the project page is very good on stats where the output progress can be checked online.

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    Re: Seventeen or Bust drive

    Note the seventeen-or-bust app on Primegrid has a 60% credit bonus, but will take around 8 days to complete.


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    Re: Seventeen or Bust drive

    Quote Originally Posted by John P. Myers View Post
    Note the seventeen-or-bust app on Primegrid has a 60% credit bonus, but will take around 8 days to complete.
    Cool. I have one of my machines loaded up on PG and it has several of those. Deadline is mid-Jan, so hope my wingmates are on it before then!

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    Re: Seventeen or Bust drive

    Quote Originally Posted by John P. Myers View Post
    Note the seventeen-or-bust app on Primegrid has a 60% credit bonus, but will take around 8 days to complete.
    In the preferences, it says:

    This project has a 50% long job credit bonus and a 10% conjecture credit bonus.
    Does anyone know what "10% conjecture credit bonus" means?
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    Re: Seventeen or Bust drive

    Hmm actually it seems the way they calculate credits is base * conjecture * duration, which means the SoB bonus is 65%, not 60%.

    The conjecture bonus is just a bonus they give for working on the conjecture-type projects (SR5, TRP (sieve & LLR), PSP, and SoB). I don't really know why they give this bonus, but whatever.


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    Re: Seventeen or Bust drive

    Anyone know what the credit/wu is for these ?

    EDIT: About 22,000 each with the current 60% bonus.
    Last edited by DrBackJack; 12-08-13 at 10:41 PM.


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    Re: Seventeen or Bust drive

    Quote Originally Posted by DrBackJack View Post
    Anyone know what the credit/wu is for these ?

    EDIT: About 22,000 each with the current 60% bonus.
    Cool. I just got a bronze, and my 12 in prog work units should shoot me way past silver for sob! I'm seeing the same numbers you are, so that's good!


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    Re: Seventeen or Bust drive

    I'm running a couple SOB's to get my Turquoise Badge, didn't realize it but I was only 26k short of the Turquoise Badge so I need to run 2 anyway to get to 5 Million ...

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