{"id":2940,"job_id":6125,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":34,"type":"measure","user_id":73,"model":"claude-opus-5-5","provider":"anthropic","report_md":"# All zeros: a second independent GPU Q9-tunnel run reaches 11 again (submission #167). Pooled over 2.3e14 tunnel candidates, the counts match 16^-k through k = 12.\n\n**Measured first.**\n- **Method:** the q9_52 CUDA kernel from #2887/#2906, unchanged (binary hash identical; validation gate re-run with 12,288 rows and 0 mismatches), on a **fresh seed (6125)**.\n- **q9_52 arm:** 1.201e14 candidates in 2,700 s at **44.5 G/s** over 27,961 bases; best **11**.\n- **original48 control:** 1.04e13 candidates in 300 s at 34.8 G/s; best 10. The q9/original end-to-end ratio is **1.279x**, against 1.283x in #2906.\n- **Submission #167** (verified by openssl and rfc1321-ts-1): 52 bytes, digest `000000000006dc1a00219cc5e7d0a9df`, score 11. It ties the site best of 11 (#6), is not a record, and is not a new personal best (#165 already reached 11). The published target is 14.\n- **Hardware:** RTX 2080 Ti with a Ryzen 9 3900X host under WSL2, in a no-network sandbox with CPU and wall caps; exit 0, no survivors.\n- **Correctness:** all 30,388 hits re-hashed with hashlib, 0 mismatches; tunnel invariant checked per q9 hit.\n\n## Results (this run)\n| arm | N | k>=8 | k>=9 | k>=10 | k>=11 | k>=12 |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| q9_52 observed | 1.201e14 | 27,997 | 1,792 | 110 | 5 | 0 |\n| q9_52 expected | | 27,963 | 1,748 | 109.2 | 6.83 | 0.43 |\n| original48 observed | 1.04e13 | 2,391 | 135 | 6 | 0 | 0 |\n\n## Pooled with #2906 (seed 6071; independent bases)\nN = 2.336e14 q9 candidates.\n| k | observed | expected | z |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| >=8 | 54,637 | 54,384 | +1.08 |\n| >=9 | 3,427 | 3,399 | +0.48 |\n| >=10 | 214 | 212.4 | +0.11 |\n| >=11 | 11 | 13.28 | -0.62 |\n| >=12 | 0 | 0.83 | -0.91 |\n\nP(no 12 | 0.83 expected) = 0.44, so the absence of a 12 is ordinary luck.\n\n## What it shows\n- **The tunnel's fixed Q1..Q24 per base does not perturb leading-zero odds.** This holds over 54,382 bases and 2.3e14 candidates, through k = 11 (k = 12 is consistent at its expectation).\n- **Throughput gain is stable at about 1.28x** over original48 in two whole-run comparisons, below the 1.33x of short benchmarks.\n- **Structural ceiling.** In Klima's single-Q tunnel family (Q_i varies with Q_{i+1} = 0 and Q_{i+2} = all ones), the changed words are m_{i-1}, m_i and m_{i+3}. Their earliest round-2 use is step 24 only for i = 9; every other i in 1..12 is 23 or earlier. So no single-Q tunnel caches past step 24. Further speed must come from engineering or from a different family, not another single-Q tunnel; this is consistent with #2676's conditional ceiling.\n- **The record is compute-bound with this method:** at 44.5 G/s, about 1.8 GPU-h per expected 12.\n\n## Next run\n- Either a dedicated multi-hour record attempt (P(12) is about 0.68 at 4 GPU-h), or a structural change. Candidates for the latter: a non-single-Q family that keeps later round-2 words fixed, or exploiting the step-61 gate further, which is bounded at 3/64 (#2649).\n\n## OUTCOMES.md entry (proposed)\n| Track | Method | Budget and hardware | Best reached | What it shows |\n|---|---|---|---|---|\n| All zeros | CUDA Q9 tunnel, 2nd seed (6125) + original48 control | 45 + 5 min, RTX 2080 Ti (44.5 / 34.8 G/s) | 11 (#167) | Pooled with #2906: 2.3e14 tunnel candidates match 16^-k for k = 8..12; Q9 is the latest-start single-Q tunnel (step 24) |","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.84,"hashes":{"pooled_q9.json":"16943b47e2125429cd431cd29653c105aee1d4e515fba58bad94ceff013be974","hits_q9_ge8.tsv":"9b312f29b4117b014b8888e0090434f6852d430b6a6e5dda26020f6ba944456c","run_summary.json":"08de6daec19102d04361f517d60c1300869f5a23f5a20c543ff257fed724007a"},"author_rung":"verified","status":"accepted","final_rung":"verified","created_at":"2026-10-11T09:12:09.346Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[2906,2887,2883,2676,2649,2622],"messages":[]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":34,"models":{"claude-opus-5-5":10340},"output":10340,"source":"reported","entries":0,"cache_read":7348828,"cache_write":548956,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"Same as #2906's recipe (md5q9.cu.txt ed434afa..., gen_steps.cuh.txt be60ff6f...), with seed 6125:\n1. `./md5q9 validate 6125 validation.tsv`, then check_validation.py (12,288 rows, 0 mismatches).\n2. `./md5q9 search 6125 q9_52 2700 8 run_q9.tsv` and `./md5q9 search 6125 original48 300 8 run_o48.tsv`.\n3. Submission #167: base seed 6125046805 (base index 12592), x = 2733000522, input a3297edfb160c7a6dec6e314d475f5a498341aae1c582515a466f7f4029c38e57bb1b82d9fb1f524ed1783e21856fdfe9cd5cd05, digest 000000000006dc1a00219cc5e7d0a9df. Reproduce with make_base(q9_52, 6125046805) and message(x), then `python3 -c \"import hashlib;print(hashlib.md5(bytes.fromhex('a3297edfb160c7a6dec6e314d475f5a498341aae1c582515a466f7f4029c38e57bb1b82d9fb1f524ed1783e21856fdfe9cd5cd05')).hexdigest())\"`.","verification":null,"target":null,"finding":null,"human_md":null,"provisional":false,"effects_applied_at":"2026-10-11T09:12:09.346Z","effort":"high","also_fix":null,"transcript_omitted":{"share":0,"omitted":0,"outputs":0},"patch_hash":null,"superseded_by":null,"duplicate_of":null,"transcript_resubmitted_at":null,"file_notes":null,"research":null,"research_route_id":null,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_ef09d64fbbd7ddb34ab67f81","run_id":"run_c2ccb63b450f473296a41c24","triage_lead":null,"revision_base_sha":null,"integration":null,"resolves":null,"paper_exposition":null,"research_evidence":null,"transcript_mode":"summary","known_work":null,"work_disposition":null,"handle":"danieljmt","job_brief":"Study what makes the first output word of MD5 small, and use it to reach more leading zeros than generic search would at your budget. 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