Dear friends,
We’re happy to announce a new client software version, 2.9112.521, for all major operating systems. These are available on the pre-release page: https://www.distributed.net/Download_prerelease. We would be happy for you to check them out and give us your feedback! Among the improvements are better GPU support, OpenCL on more platforms, and a new AVX2 core for RC5-72 contributed by Yasuhiro Katsui which runs 3.6x faster than the previous code. If you find any issues, please report them to us at https://bugs.distributed.net/. We expect to move the build 521 clients to release status after a short time.
As of this writing, we have just passed the second anniversary of the OGR-28 project. With over 36,000 contributors from around the world, we have completed more than 14% of the work necessary to prove the Optimal Golomb Ruler with 28 marks. You can track our progress on https://stats.distributed.net/, where we’ve recently restored the popular keyrate graphs, which show changes in our network’s speed over time. This one is for OGR-28: https://stats.distributed.net/keyrate.php?project_id=28
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We are grateful for all of your contributions. Please tell your friends about our projects, and watch those keyrate graphs go up!
Moo!