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Message boards :
Number crunching :
PrimeGrid will be offline for server upgrades
(Message 165543)
Posted 7 hours ago by  Michael Goetz
Discord, of course, will remain available.
Now that you mention it -- would it be possible to use a more open and privacy friendly communications channel, such as Matrix or Mastodon?
Zyfdnug
I'm not familiar with either of those, sorry. That being said, I've heard good things about Mastadon, but Discord is very feature rich and suits us well. We're not looking to change, but we are open to hearing about why something else is amazingly better than what we already have. :)
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
PrimeGrid will be offline for server upgrades
(Message 165541)
Posted 7 hours ago by Michael Goetz
As well as a narrower window of time if possible, so that we can stock up on some tasks for the maintenance window and not ruin our first percentages on the project where it matters during that week.
LOL
Same response as when this question was asked on Discord:
Exactly what part of "minimal notice" is not clear?
We're under a bit of a time crunch here, so we're doing the upgrade as soon as it's ready. You'll get as much notice as is possible, but it probably won't be much. Whether that's minutes or hours, I don't know.
The old servers turn back into pumpkins at the end of the month.
The geeks all want to know, what is PG upgrading to? IIRC, current stuff is a quad core Xeon E3 v5 or v6, yes?
The old servers are Xeon E3-1240 v6, 4c/8t with 32 GB memory, 200 GB SSD, and 1 TB HDD.
The new servers are AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 16c/32t with 128 GB memory, and 2 TB M.2.
EDIT: We've been running with similar (but not quite so beefy) machines as auxiliary servers to help with LLR2 back end processing for most of this year, and been quite happy with them.
EDIT 2: The big difference is the new servers are in the cloud. current servers are iron that we own.
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Message boards :
News :
PrimeGrid will be offline for server upgrades
(Message 165529)
Posted 1 day ago by Michael Goetz
We're upgrading to new servers sometime within the next week. With minimal warning, all PrimeGrid servers will be down for several hours.
Discord, of course, will remain available.
Discussion and more information will be available on Discord as well as on the the forums. The forums will be offline during the upgrade, however, so Discord is where we can be reached during the upgrade.
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
PrimeGrid will be offline for server upgrades
(Message 165528)
Posted 1 day ago by Michael Goetz
We're upgrading to new servers sometime within the next week. With minimal warning, all PrimeGrid servers will be down for several hours.
Discord, of course, will remain available.
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Message boards :
Problems and Help :
GCW
(Message 165434)
Posted 5 days ago by Michael Goetz
I assume You want to show Your GCW badge, this is how You do it:
[img]https://www.primegrid.com/img/badges/gcw_llr_turquoise.png[/img]
And result is:
You need to know exact link for every badge, you can find them right clicking badge and chose "Open image in new tab" (this is in Google Chrome)
Then replace address between [ img ] tags
"Copy Image Address" is easier.
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Message boards :
Cullen/Woodall prime search :
WOO run times
(Message 165393)
Posted 7 days ago by Michael Goetz
The good thing about Noctua (what they're known for, actually) is that they are very quiet.
The bad thing about Noctua is that they're so quiet it's not obvious when they're not working!
Glad to hear it's a simple fix. :)
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Message boards :
Problems and Help :
New subproject
(Message 165392)
Posted 7 days ago by Michael Goetz
Hello!
I propose a new subproject: Symmetric Prime Tuples.
Hi Natalia,
Unfortunately PrimeGrid's position is unchanged since the last time you asked us about running SPT. This is not something we'd be interested in doing.
We do wish you luck, wherever you end up running SPT.
Regards,
Michael
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
PPS-Sieve, PPS-MEGA, GFN-15, SGS, and AP27 are shutting down
(Message 165377)
Posted 8 days ago by Michael Goetz
To make is easier for PPSE to get back to Top 5000, you could limit PPSE to k < 5000.
Yves had a more extreme idea, along these lines. Run PPSE in k,n order instead of n,k order. It's under discussion. It's not clear what the ramifications would be.
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Message boards :
News :
Revised: PPSE gets a reprieve but PPS-MEGA is shutting down
(Message 165341)
Posted 9 days ago by Michael Goetz
After a lot of discussion, some changes have been made in the projects that are closing. PPS-MEGA is shutting down on October 19th, while PPSE will continue running to its natural end at one million digits.
More details can be found on the forum.
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
PPS-Sieve, PPS-MEGA, GFN-15, SGS, and AP27 are shutting down
(Message 165340)
Posted 9 days ago by Michael Goetz
The plan has been revised. The two most important changes are that PPSE will continue until it's natural end at one million digits (where it catches up to the PPSE portion of PPS-MEGA), while PPS-MEGA will shut down on October 19th. This is the 30 day warning for PPS-MEGA.
The first post has been updated with all the changes, including the revised dates for the other projects.
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