:: 13-Jul-2000 22:07 (Thursday) ::
Greetings cows of the world!
Earlier this year, distributed.net began integrating the Optimal Golomb
Rules project (http://www.distributed.net/ogr/) into its network. However,
some clients were returning inordinately large node counts for completed
stubs. When sharing buffer files between certain combinations of platforms,
buffers were becoming corrupted.
New clients have been built with this bug corrected, and we are now ready
to restart the OGR project. On Friday July 13, 2000 at 0000UTC, we will
restart from the beginning of OGR-24, using smaller work units that can
be turned around more quickly. When OGR-24 is complete we will move right
on to OGR-25 and so on.
Although OGR code has been present in the dnetc clients since version
v2.8002.446, no blocks will be accepted from versions prior to v2.8009.460.
We ask that you update your clients
(http://www.distributed.net/download/clients.html) to v2.8009.460 or
higher. These clients have been available for some time now and you should
take the time to upgrade as many systems as you can.
Even if you don’t plan on participating in the OGR projects, you will want
to upgrade your clients because of major network and buffer-management
improvements. Check out the changes document
(http://www.distributed.net/download/changes.txt) for a complete listof
changes.
Stats have been completed for OGR and will be processed with the RC5 stats
run on the first day of the contest. For information on changes to stats
see http://n0cgi.distributed.net/~decibel/newstats.txt