Point taken. I need to improve the documentation and make it easier to start with.
There is a lot of documentation and HowTos on the Mersenne Forums [1] where experienced users help newcomers, and that relieves effort from myself.
There is a lot of documentation and HowTos on the Mersenne Forums [1] where experienced users help newcomers, and that relieves effort from myself.
Heading to the forums, it is a mess of what looks like decades of information. Tons of it outdated. Much of it heavy in math terms, I don't know anything about. I wish I did! I wish I was smarter! Following the "follow this first" is just a whole bunch of random information.
If you're looking for people to throw compute at the problem, you need to cater to the LCD of people like me who have tons of compute, but don't have the time to get a math degree or pile through forums for information.
Imagine if in order to use a web browser, you needed to understand every single underlying protocol first.
But I understand your feedback. I put it on my list to make it really easy to see the software running once you have the executable.
There is one little complication though -- you do need a working OpenCL install in order to use GpuOwl. For example, for AMD GPUs, you'd need to install ROCm. On Nvidia GPUs you'd need a working install of CUDA.
The software compiled cleanly and easily, that part is very well done.
The flags on the software though are greek to me.