To cool down the heated minds, here is something totally unrelated: --------snip------------------- Subject: Re: RC5 Challenge - Linux at Top
> of a an Internet project. RC5-32/12/4 took 3.5h, RC5-32/12/5 took > 13 days with far more computing power and more optimized software. > The 56 bit challenge RC5-32/12/6 will need again about 256 times as > long, that's 8 years _average_. Last time I checked the speed the job was running at it would take 8 years total. So it just needs a chunk more machinery to take it down to months. The point of this isnt btw politics or money, its because "It can't be done". It represents probably the largest computation ever attempted by man, so its got hack value.. Alan -----------------snip--------------------- Have a look at http://zero.genx.net/ You can get the clients at ftp://portal.stwing.upenn.edu/pub/rc5 To join the fun start the client on your machines with: nohup ./rc5-client-linux-i586 -i [EMAIL PROTECTED] & It will just suck up unused CPU cycles. The [EMAIL PROTECTED] address is the collective identity for the linux comunity. If we should be the happy ones the win, the prize money will go into the Linux International fund for development grants if I remember correctly. So far there are 521 Linux machines active, I think we should be able to push this up quite a bit. :-) Since Alan checked last the estimated time to finish went down from 8 to 6.85 years....... Mike Michael Neuffer i-Connect.Net, a Division of iConnect Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home of the Debian Master Server. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14355 SW Allen Blvd., Suite 140 503.641.8774 Beaverton, OR 97005 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
