Distributed Science/DCypher.Net pioneered the sweepstake pay model, starting to give away $100/week in March. We also have been the first effort to stand up and say that for-pay distributed computing is feasible.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Distributed Science is launching the first paying project in a couple days, it will directly pay the selected participants for their work. Projects for several other paying customers are under development.
Distributed Science also gives away $100/week to the volunteers on the non-profit Gamma Flux project, which is in operation since December 20, 1999 (first anniversary coming up;)
Additionally, if you are using the ProcessTree distributed network, you get a deeper trace path that moves away from the backbone to the end-user. This is where you, for example, want to check the performance of e-commerce websites, where the offering is supposed to show up.
Hello there, Armin Lenz from Distributed Science here.
Our decisions to launch with Windows client software first is a simple one: Linux clients are in the works but are under a contractual deadline, which is hard to meet by itself. As we provide updates, Linux clients will be rolled out as well, in particular because Linux boxes are considered 24/7 reliable (unless they are dial-up, of course).
A large number of the locations chosen for the first run are in Asia and South Africa. If you have a suitable machine and were not called upon directly, don't worry, the project is supposed to expand to several hundred locations over time and if you are in a sizeable city, chances are good that we'll have use for you there.
All this is independent of processing jobs that require computing time or storage capacity. Projects of this kind will be rolled out later, we are responding to customer demand first and try to get as much of the ProcessTree network utilized so the suppliers can earn some money.
Remind me not to move to your neighbourhood:)
I would assume it is not more power consuming to operate the light emitter than the electrical equivalent in copper wiring. Anyone?
Hmm, I don't recall someone called Anonymous Coward trying to contact me, but I would have enjoyed answering his email:) Let me use this opportunity to congratulate the d.net user base for their new code cracking success. D.net certainly can be envied for the loyality their contributors showed through the daisy chain of problems their CSC effort had. I hope we will be able to gather the same breed of supporters as we keep expanding and adding projects. I'd also like to thank the 3,100 contributors who were part of the DCypher.Net CSC effort which, as you know, was the first CSC effort to roll out to the public. We reached around 11% of the keyspace when the key was found. This made our users about 36.9% more efficient than the competing effort, which I think is a very good basis for our future work considering our significantly lesser experience with distributed projects. DCypher.Net is here to stay and is working on the Gamma Flux project as we speak, with another two being in preparation for launch during the next few weeks. Also keep an eye open for tomorrow, when we'll release news about a high-profile reinforcement for our team. We wish d.net good luck at completing the RC5 effort, keep cracking folks.
Well I guess it is more important news than DCypher.Net bringing out clients for Linux and FreeBSD for the new Gamma Flux distributed computing project. That one was rejected twice.
Hmm.. Time magazine, a regional publication covering about 5% of the world population, singling out and praising one man for something half of mankind can't even begin to understand. Tell me just how newsworthy that is? *yawn*
Actually we'd love to provide support for the PPC platform (whether it be under Linux or MacOS), but for lack of a dedicated PPC platform programmer it cannot be done. We have one primary coder working on Shadow (DCypher client 1.1) right now, one coder for Linux/FreeBSD porting the code and one database wizard. That's all we have to our name and we must allocate our resources wisely to create the most efficient infrastructure for post-CSC projects, of which we have tagged one so far. If, by any means, you feel competent to port x86 MMX-based assembler code to the PPC platform, feel free to contact our lead programmer at steve@dcypher.net and offer your help:)
We recommend you go and bench them for yourself. Please note that DCypher.Net blocks are 2^32 keys while distributed.net ones are 2^28. To calculate kkeys/s divide DCypher's kbps by 64.
We put up a short table at this location for some selected CPUs.
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Distributed Science/DCypher.Net pioneered the sweepstake pay model, starting to give away $100/week in March. We also have been the first effort to stand up and say that for-pay distributed computing is feasible. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Distributed Science is launching the first paying project in a couple days, it will directly pay the selected participants for their work. Projects for several other paying customers are under development.
;)
Distributed Science also gives away $100/week to the volunteers on the non-profit Gamma Flux project, which is in operation since December 20, 1999 (first anniversary coming up
It actually is something new.
Additionally, if you are using the ProcessTree distributed network, you get a deeper trace path that moves away from the backbone to the end-user. This is where you, for example, want to check the performance of e-commerce websites, where the offering is supposed to show up.
Hello there, Armin Lenz from Distributed Science here.
Our decisions to launch with Windows client software first is a simple one: Linux clients are in the works but are under a contractual deadline, which is hard to meet by itself. As we provide updates, Linux clients will be rolled out as well, in particular because Linux boxes are considered 24/7 reliable (unless they are dial-up, of course).
A large number of the locations chosen for the first run are in Asia and South Africa. If you have a suitable machine and were not called upon directly, don't worry, the project is supposed to expand to several hundred locations over time and if you are in a sizeable city, chances are good that we'll have use for you there.
All this is independent of processing jobs that require computing time or storage capacity. Projects of this kind will be rolled out later, we are responding to customer demand first and try to get as much of the ProcessTree network utilized so the suppliers can earn some money.
Remind me not to move to your neighbourhood :)
I would assume it is not more power consuming to operate the light emitter than the electrical equivalent in copper wiring. Anyone?
If I want the government to run software on my computer I move to China. No thanks.
Hmm, I don't recall someone called Anonymous Coward trying to contact me, but I would have enjoyed answering his email :) Let me use this opportunity to congratulate the d.net user base for their new code cracking success. D.net certainly can be envied for the loyality their contributors showed through the daisy chain of problems their CSC effort had. I hope we will be able to gather the same breed of supporters as we keep expanding and adding projects. I'd also like to thank the 3,100 contributors who were part of the DCypher.Net CSC effort which, as you know, was the first CSC effort to roll out to the public. We reached around 11% of the keyspace when the key was found. This made our users about 36.9% more efficient than the competing effort, which I think is a very good basis for our future work considering our significantly lesser experience with distributed projects. DCypher.Net is here to stay and is working on the Gamma Flux project as we speak, with another two being in preparation for launch during the next few weeks. Also keep an eye open for tomorrow, when we'll release news about a high-profile reinforcement for our team. We wish d.net good luck at completing the RC5 effort, keep cracking folks.
Well I guess it is more important news than DCypher.Net bringing out clients for Linux and FreeBSD for the new Gamma Flux distributed computing project. That one was rejected twice.
*sarcasm off*
Hmm .. Time magazine, a regional publication covering about 5% of the world population, singling out and praising one man for something half of mankind can't even begin to understand. Tell me just how newsworthy that is? *yawn*
Actually we'd love to provide support for the PPC platform (whether it be under Linux or MacOS), but for lack of a dedicated PPC platform programmer it cannot be done. We have one primary coder working on Shadow (DCypher client 1.1) right now, one coder for Linux/FreeBSD porting the code and one database wizard. That's all we have to our name and we must allocate our resources wisely to create the most efficient infrastructure for post-CSC projects, of which we have tagged one so far. If, by any means, you feel competent to port x86 MMX-based assembler code to the PPC platform, feel free to contact our lead programmer at steve@dcypher.net and offer your help :)
We recommend you go and bench them for yourself. Please note that DCypher.Net blocks are 2^32 keys while distributed.net ones are 2^28. To calculate kkeys/s divide DCypher's kbps by 64.
We put up a short table at this location for some selected CPUs.