Adam Beberg was one of the founders of distributed.net. While their first contests were all encryption related Adam really wanted to pursue general distributed computing problems. v3 of the D.net client was supposed to have a plugin type model which would allow people to run one client and pick the problems, be it encryption, primes, ogr or even seti. It seems that the timing was off because Adam decided to leave d.net to work on cosmo, the client that would have been v3. Why can't everyone stop fighting over which project to support and show enthusiasm for cosmo. Once it has large install base much more work could be completed. Each new problem would not require a whole new client. People could easily work on SETI when they have unchecked data and look for large primes, or fit circles into boxes the rest of the time. Currently each of these projects require a seperate download and process fighting for my spare cycles.
Adam Beberg was one of the founders of distributed.net. While their first contests were all encryption related Adam really wanted to pursue general distributed computing problems. v3 of the D.net client was supposed to have a plugin type model which would allow people to run one client and pick the problems, be it encryption, primes, ogr or even seti. It seems that the timing was off because Adam decided to leave d.net to work on cosmo, the client that would have been v3. Why can't everyone stop fighting over which project to support and show enthusiasm for cosmo. Once it has wide spread use much more work could be completed. Each new problem would not require a whole new client. People could easily work on SETI when they have unchecked data and look for large primes, or fit circles into boxes the rest of the time. Currentlt each project requires a seperate download.
You have to check out Adam Beberg's Cosm. It was going to be distributed.net's v3 client until "Cosm" split from dn in April. I still don't have a clue why that happened but would love to see Adam's project succeed and replace S@H, d.n, etc.
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Adam Beberg was one of the founders of distributed.net. While their first contests were all encryption related Adam really wanted to pursue general distributed computing problems. v3 of the D.net client was supposed to have a plugin type model which would allow people to run one client and pick the problems, be it encryption, primes, ogr or even seti. It seems that the timing was off because Adam decided to leave d.net to work on cosmo, the client that would have been v3.
Why can't everyone stop fighting over which project to support and show enthusiasm for cosmo. Once it has large install base much more work could be completed. Each new problem would not require a whole new client. People could easily work on SETI when they have unchecked data and look for large primes, or fit circles into boxes the rest of the time. Currently each of these projects require a seperate download and process fighting for my spare cycles.
Adam Beberg was one of the founders of distributed.net. While their first contests were all encryption related Adam really wanted to pursue general distributed computing problems. v3 of the D.net client was supposed to have a plugin type model which would allow people to run one client and pick the problems, be it encryption, primes, ogr or even seti. It seems that the timing was off because Adam decided to leave d.net to work on cosmo, the client that would have been v3.
Why can't everyone stop fighting over which project to support and show enthusiasm for cosmo. Once it has wide spread use much more work could be completed. Each new problem would not require a whole new client. People could easily work on SETI when they have unchecked data and look for large primes, or fit circles into boxes the rest of the time. Currentlt each project requires a seperate download.
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You have to check out Adam Beberg's Cosm.
It was going to be distributed.net's v3 client until "Cosm" split from dn in April. I still don't have a clue why that happened but would love to see Adam's project succeed and replace S@H, d.n, etc.