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1) Message boards : Questions/Problems/Bugs : The prime factors are wrong
Message 2516
Posted 6 Dec 2024 by Greg
Should be fixed now. The first half of the original log was correct, but there was a log from another run accidentally included, and those factors were displayed on the webpage. Thanks for pointing it out!
2) Message boards : Chat : User cannot reset password
Message 2503
Posted 6 Nov 2024 by Greg
I'm here. :)
I'll look into it.
3) Message boards : News : BOINC Pentathlon - Thank you!
Message 2474
Posted 21 May 2024 by Greg
Thank you to all the BOINC Pentathlon participants who devoted their time and computing power to NFS@Home, and to SETI.Germany for organizing this event. We look forward to next time!
4) Message boards : Questions/Problems/Bugs : Stuck in Pending
Message 2471
Posted 16 May 2024 by Greg
From https://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/ProjectOptions:

&ltresend_lost_results> 0|1 &lt/resend_lost_results>
If set, and a <other_results> list is present in scheduler request, resend any in-progress results not in the list. This is recommended; it may increase the efficiency of your project. For reasons that are not well understood, a BOINC client sometimes fails to receive the scheduler reply. This flag addresses that issue: it causes the SAME results to be resent by the scheduler, if the client has failed to receive them.

The server detected that your client failed to receive some results and resent them.
5) Message boards : Questions/Problems/Bugs : Stuck in Pending
Message 2466
Posted 14 May 2024 by Greg
Better for now?
6) Message boards : News : BOINC Pentathlon
Message 2462
Posted 9 May 2024 by Greg
Welcome BOINC Pentathlon participants. NFS@Home has been chosen for the Javelin Throw discipline starting May 10 at midnight UTC.
7) Message boards : Questions/Problems/Bugs : 14e Sieve Computation error
Message 2447
Posted 2 Mar 2024 by Greg
Some ranges of this one are failing but not all. We are going to plod through it. I'm cancelling the erroring WUs as we go.
8) Message boards : Questions/Problems/Bugs : Why does /lasieve5f_1.11_windows_x86_64.exe use SSE3 but lasieve5f_1.11_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu doesn't?
Message 2437
Posted 30 Jan 2024 by Greg
Honestly not sure. The Windows binary was built with MinGW-W64 gcc 4.9.1, while the linux binary was built with gcc 4.1.2. I target arch x86-64, but different options may have been used to compile an included library file. Are you using one of the few early x86-64 CPUs without SSE3 support?
9) Message boards : Questions/Problems/Bugs : m1 apple arm port of nfs applications
Message 2435
Posted 29 Jan 2024 by Greg
Yes, the source code is available at
https://github.com/gchilders/lasieve5_nfsathome/tree/windows
There is a separate Mac branch also, but the Windows branch should work. However, much of the speed comes from x86_64 asm. An ARM port will need to either use the generic C code or port the asm.
10) Message boards : News : And we're back!
Message 2431
Posted 5 Jan 2024 by Greg
The NFS@Home server was unexpectedly caught up in a campus network reorganization. That knocked us offline for a bit over a day. There may be brief outages over the next few days as we get everything settled again, but we are mostly back up with a new IP address. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Edit: The site came back up in the US on Friday afternoon PST, but because of a misconfigured firewall it wasn't available worldwide until Saturday afternoon. Again, we apologize for the issues.
11) Message boards : Questions/Problems/Bugs : Right?
Message 2429
Posted 2 Jan 2024 by Greg
Fixed. Thanks for letting me know!
12) Message boards : NFS Discussion : 14
Message 2426
Posted 31 Dec 2023 by Greg
We've largely cleared out the smaller numbers in the established factoring projects over the years. It's mostly used now to slowly work through the smaller near-repdigits or if a needed, appropriately-sized Odd Perfect or Aliquot number comes up.
13) Message boards : News : NFS@Home will be offline Saturday, May 27
Message 2395
Posted 26 May 2023 by Greg
The NFS@Home project will be offline much of the day on Saturday, May 27, due to campus IT maintenance and testing. All access should be restored by 8pm PDT.

Greg Childers
14) Message boards : Questions/Problems/Bugs : Computation errors for 16e small numbers
Message 2390
Posted 11 May 2023 by Greg
There seems to be an issue with the Windows client for degree-7 polynomials on some (but not all) versions of Windows. I'll track that down after we get through finals. In the meantime, numbers with septics have been put on hold.
Greg
15) Message boards : Questions/Problems/Bugs : Preferences page selections vs Application page names
Message 2386
Posted 26 Apr 2023 by Greg
How do you determine what applications are linked to which Preference Page selections ?

Why make if so hard ? or put both sets of names on both pages ?

Good point. Hopefully is it clearer now.
16) Message boards : Questions/Problems/Bugs : WU's failing with EXIT_TIME_LIMIT_EXCEEDED
Message 2377
Posted 1 Mar 2023 by Greg
I'm a bit confused why increasing rsc_fpops_est leads to a shorter time limit. But I've changed it to slightly above the previous value and added a much larger rsc_fpops_bound. I hope that helps!
17) Message boards : Questions/Problems/Bugs : WU's failing with EXIT_TIME_LIMIT_EXCEEDED
Message 2371
Posted 26 Feb 2023 by Greg
Certainly possible. We are stretching these further than I originally intended when I set those values. I have increased it by a factor of 10 for newly generated wus.
18) Message boards : NFS Discussion : Project Admin(s)
Message 2363
Posted 15 Feb 2023 by Greg
Thanks for the advance notice!
19) Message boards : Questions/Problems/Bugs : Badges are not updating
Message 2345
Posted 19 Nov 2022 by Greg
I don't see anything wrong. What are you seeing?
20) Message boards : Questions/Problems/Bugs : XSEDE has been replaced with ACCESS. Can the front page bee updated with the new information?
Message 2341
Posted 8 Nov 2022 by Greg
On my to-do list...
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