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Not bad that Team Bammann has just made the top 450!

Today is a great day for the Team_Bammann crew - Mike is reporting another CPU addition to the fleet. Unfortunately this is only just off-setting the loss of a 3.0GHz P4(D) with HT. But with a current record high ranking for our team of 555, it’s hard to argue that this won’t get us into the TOP 500!!!

Team_Bammann has just made it to its new highest ever ranking, of 579. Tom’s uni computer is no longer cranking results, which is a bummer considering it’s a hyperthreaded 3GHz P4. Until more processing power is added Team_Bammann will be struggling to increase its ranking.

Recently Mike’s office buddy Kris has been trying to persuade us to move our CPU efforts over to BBC’s Climate Change Experiment. This is something to be discussed between Team_Bammann members over the next few weeks.

With Team_Bammann steadily climbing the ranks of the GIMPS CPU crunching enthusiasts in the world, the website has been overhauled and now located at:
http://tombammann.org/team_bammann/

The Bammann brothers would like to thank all team members for their contributions over the years, and we are pleased to announce a committee position up for offer as Marketing Manager.

Please contact Team_Bammann to express interest in this position.

Team_Bammann has just officially made it to the top 1000 prime number search teams in the world. Good work to myself and to my brother, and stay tuned for the announcement of a new dual cpu, hyperthread P4D @ 2.8GHz adding to the ranks of our computational team!

An awesome surprise from my brother Mike tonight - Team_Bammann has made it to a new world ranking: 1822. This break in the top 2000 is due to a result that Mike returned. Nice one, Mike. He’s going to be doing some smaller numbers for a while now, before returning to the big gun ten million digit numbers.

Tonight I made an awesome Country Keiche, using pastry mix. Next time I make it I’ll write it up with the recipe, and add a photo maybe!

Tonight I measured the distance of the last run that I did, which I thought was 21km. I was bitterly disappointed to find out it was only about 18.5 - this means tomorrow I’m going to go get some non-chafing shorts that I can run in till well after the sun goes down, through the night, and into the next day, and smash this 21k barrier.

Today I confirmed with Jesse and Laura the details for catching wombats on Tuesday night, for Laura’s honours science project on a wombat skin disease called Mange. It should make for an interesting meeting Wednesday moring at work!

Today I’m still working on the layout for my first LaTeX2e typesetting document, for my research proposal for work. Hopefully I can show some good work next week. Yesterday I stayed home and worked on the computer for about 16 hours. Even when friends came around for pizza and a movie, I somehow managed to miss the movie and keep working. I’m really “in the zone” at the moment. It’s scary.