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  1. Pentium III's overpriced by myconid · · Score: 1 · on But what of the P3?

    >, they'll be as worthless as MMX (well MMX is
    >nice for my distributed.net client, but that's it)


    You wish :)..
    http://www.distributed.net/FAQ/rc5-6 4-faq.html


    How come a Pentium with MMX isn't any faster than a Pentium without MMX?
    This has a similar answer as the FPU question above. In short there seems to be no way to apply any of the MMX instructions to our advantage. Right now none of the Bovine clients attempt to make use of MMX and we believe any use of the MMX instruction set will result in slower clients rather than faster ones. However, like the FPU question, there has been some recent discussions that suggest that this may not necessarily be the case (MMX instructions are also pipelined separately from integer instructions). If anyone can develop an RC5-64 core that takes advantage of the Pentium's MMX instruction set for an overall client speed boost we would be very interested in hearing from them! To aid in your efforts the x86 core code has been made available and can be downloaded from http://altern.com/rguyom/.

  2. Corrected link by Mumford · · Score: 1 · on DES-III Completed

    The corrected link

  3. Fix the URL in the link. by Falsch+Freiheit · · Score: 1 · on DES-III Completed

    Replace the ` with a ? and it works fine.

    Like this

  4. Ok, I just gotta say it... by Mumford · · Score: 1 · on DES Keyrate Rapidly Growing
    I may not be the first responder, but I am #1 on slashdot's team list.

    83 Ultra 10's will do that, I guess :)

    oh well, back to work.

  5. hyper macs on distributed.net? by deno · · Score: 1 · on DES III starts Today (Upgrade Those Clients!)
    Something weird happened with the OS-statystics on the distributed.net.
    The "total number of blocks cracked by Mac clients" has jumped from 321536935 to 1174254928 in only nine days (Jan 5th to Jan 14)!

    To be clearer: 1174254928/321536935 = 3.65..!

    The best thing is that I have e-mailed some of the distributed.net people (nugget first, later also dbaker,moose and silby) to ask what's going on. Imagine what have they answered? Nothing.

    Am I the only one who doesn't like this?
  6. Go get the LATEST client for DES III. by booch · · Score: 1 · on New Distributed.net Clients for DESIII

    It looks like if you follow the links, you end up getting a 2.7100 or 2.7102 client. But if I'm reading correctly, you need the 2.7103 client to do DES III. Try getting the latest client from here. It says libc5, but it really isn't linked to any libraries at all, so it's okay to use no matter what libc you have.

  7. Behind but catching up by Gregg+M · · Score: 1 · on New Distributed.net Clients for DESIII

    We need more people to push the total keyspace that the Evangelistas have already done and to keep L0pht Heavy Industries off our backs. L0pht is accelerating at an alarming rate. Just a short while ago they weren't even in the top ten.

    Look at this delta