staff blogs

distributed.net staff keep (relatively) up-to-date logs of their activities in .plan files. These were traditionally available via finger, but we've put them on the web for easier consumption.

2004-06-28

bovine [28-Jun-2004 @ 08:48]

Filed under: Uncategorized — bovine @ 08:48 +00:00

:: 28-Jun-2004 08:48 GMT (Monday) ::

Two new release candidates have been made available on the pre-release
page for v2.9008.492: This includes a Mac OS X client with some
additional PPC OGR performance improvements. There is also the first
native 64-bit Win64 client (you must have an AMD64 or Intel EM64T CPUs
running a beta release of “Windows 2003 for 64-bit extended systems”).

I also thought I’d mention that we are approximately 90% done with the
OGRp2-24 already, including the verification pass. (For the OGRp2-25
we are only a few percent done so far.) We’re still working on
getting some automated reporting of the OGRp2 percentages on the stats
webpages but have no ETA yet…

Also I’d like to remind everyone to consider looking around at any old
machines that you may have installed dnetc on prior to Dec 2002 and
upgrade them to a current client version. That date was when the
RC5-72 project officially started, the v2.9000 clients were released,
and the *.v29.distributed.net DNS created.

Any client that is running a version released before v2.9 should no
longer be able to work on any of the current projects and is now idle
(or working on dummy work if it is a buggy v2.8010 client). We will
be soon shutting down the *.v27.distributed.net DNS entries, since we
are still getting traffic from obsolete clients trying to find work.
All current clients should already be using the *.v29.distributed.net
DNS, so this should not impact clients or proxies that are working.

2004-06-20

bovine [20-Jun-2004 @ 00:16]

Filed under: Uncategorized — bovine @ 00:16 +00:00

:: 20-Jun-2004 00:16 GMT (Sunday) ::

Many new clients have been moved from the pre-release page to the
official release page. Many of the PPC based platforms received
performance increases in this new version. There was also an updated
Win32 MSI installer. You can see the list of the updated versions at
http://www1.distributed.net/download/updates.php

Yesterday, starting at about Jun-19 23:30 UTC there was a short DNS
failure on one of our servers that may have caused occasional
resolution failures. There was a slight amount of backlog, but it was
caught up soon afterwards. You can see the gap where no rate data was
collected in the graphs at http://www1.distributed.net/~pstadt/rc5-72/
Note that although the rates were missing for those times, there was
relatively normal fetching/flushing to the fullservers and the backlog was
primarily just sending to the keymaster. It is not expected that much,
if any, work was lost during that time.