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[YAFU] Aliquot sequence 3612120 has terminated!!!

Aliquot sequence 3612120 has terminated!!!

View article · Wed, 7 May 2025 20:21:59 +0000

[YAFU] Aliquot sequence 3786600 has terminated!!!

Aliquot sequence 3786600 has terminated!!!

View article · Fri, 2 May 2025 18:48:28 +0000

[Minecraft@Home] Xoroshigo2 v1.06 - MacOS

Hi everyone,

We've added some new binaries for this project to allow macs to run.
Both x86 and ARM64 based macs should run just fine.

The linux and windows binaries remain at v1.05, there'd be nothing new for them if we did bump them to 1.06.
Macos is on 1.06 because I uncovered a bug in my deployment of the macos binaries and had to use a version bump to replace the old version.

Anyway, something interesting I've discovered is that M1 (and really, all apple silicon so far) LOVES these tasks.

On a sample mini task, I got 120 seconds on my 12700k, and 61 seconds on my M1 macbook air.
On the same sample mini task, one of our project developers tried it on their M4 Pro and got 43 seconds.
Of course, that's not perfectly reflective of runtimes, but I expect to see apple silicon based machines top the charts for this app based on these preliminary results.

Happy crunching, everyone!

View article · Wed, 23 Apr 2025 23:49:47 +0000

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