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ProfileCarlos Pinho
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Message 2324 - Posted: 21 Aug 2022, 5:40:37 UTC
Last modified: 21 Aug 2022, 6:08:45 UTC

Hi all,

Thank you so much for your CPU cycles donation, it is much appreciated.
Back in 2009 when the project initiated only three applications were available: lasieved (14e Lattice Sieve),
lasievee (15e Lattice Sieve) and
lasieve5f (16e Lattice Sieve V5). Nowadays we have 2 more, the ones mentioned as smaller numbers.

If for some reason you are not getting any more work, most likely due to the fact that some of the server queues are empty, try to select at least those two new applications under your NFS@Home Preferences, like this:
Run only the selected applications
"lasieved - very small numbers, uses less than 0.5 GB memory, work may be infrequently available: yes
lasievee_small - small numbers, uses up to 0.8 GB memory: yee
lasievee - medium numbers, uses up to 1 GB memory: yes
lasievef_small - large numbers, uses up to 1 GB memory: yes
lasieve5f - huge numbers, uses up to 1.25 GB memory: no"

By doing this it will definitely get your cores busy with Wu's fitting lower memory systems. Be aware that lasieve5f (16e V5) will require more than 1.2GB/thread.
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ProfileMike J.
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Message 2634 - Posted: 6 Jul 2026, 21:22:09 UTC - in response to Message 2324.  

Thanks for the heads-up!
I had only the older applications selected, so I've enabled the two newer ones as well.
Hopefully that'll keep my CPUs busy when the queues run low.
Appreciate the tip!
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