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:: 06-Aug-2007 06:06 GMT (Monday) ::
We are currently experiencing some network communication issues
between our keymaster and our keyservers. We expect the issue will be
resolved sometime today. All results that have already been
transmitted have been stored until the connectivity issues are
resolved. There will be at least a one or two day delay in stats
reflecting the latest results. Thanks for your patience!
:: 26-Jul-2007 17:24 GMT (Thursday) ::
Dear friends,
We would like to announce that we have recently completed OGRp2-25.2 (ie:
OGR-25 phase 2 sub-phase 2) and are very close to completing OGRp2-25.3. For a
full technical summary of the current progress and phases of OGR, please see
http://faq.distributed.net/?file=230
As we move forward, we have just begun distributing stubs from OGRp2-25.6.
These stubs are the first of the 5-diff stubs and as a result are quite a bit
bigger than stubs we have been working on in the recent past.
We are currently working on OGRp2-25 sub-phases 3, 4, 5 and 6 at this
time. Due to the arrangement of the stubs within the sub-phases,
there are fewer but larger stubs left for the later sub-phases. Our
current estimated percentage complete for all of the OGRp2-25 work is
~64.65%, as of July 26, 2007. You can see the current percentage at
http://stats.distributed.net/projects.php?project_id=25.
We have just released new clients (v2.9004.499) which feature a 1-3%
increase in the speed of the OGR MMX core. You can find the clients at
http://www.distributed.net/download/clients.php
Moo! ![]:8)](https://blogs.distributed.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_tinycow.png){kind=icon}
:: 01-Jun-2007 14:15 GMT (Friday) ::
Apologies for the extra password reminder emails, we had a little glitch due to
some recent maintenance.
-Chip
:: 21-May-2007 04:34 GMT (Monday) ::
Dear friends,
It is with great sadness that we must announce that RSA Labs has
decided to terminate the RSA Secret-Key Challenge, which impacts the
RC5-72 project and all of the remaining RC5 challenges. This means
that RSA Labs will not confirm any solutions or award any additional
prizes, should a correct solution be found. Furthermore, we have
received a statement indicating that they will not be disclosing the
solutions to the unsolved challenges. More details can be found on
http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2100 (Note that the page should
state that the RC5-32/12/8 solution was recovered on 14 July 2002, not
28 January 1997.)
Although RSA Labs is halting their official sponsorship, there is
still the option open to us to continue the project without their
prize or validation. We would like to solicit your feedback regarding
this option. Discussion is welcome on our rc5 mailing list (see
http://lists.distributed.net/mailman/listinfo/rc5 if you are not
already a member). In the coming days, we will provide a facility to
allow official votes to be made.
If the choice to discontinue the RC5-72 project is made, the official
transition plan will be as follows: In one week’s time from the
announced decision, the distributed.net keyservers will begin
indicating that the RC5-72 project is closed to all connecting dnetc
clients. All results received after that time will be discarded. A
couple of days before then, we will begin slowing down RC5 work unit
generation to allow the network to drain. If we receive sufficient
feedback indicating that you would like us to continue operating the
RC5-72 project, we will continue to generate work units and the
project will remain open.
We intend to continue operating the OGRp2 project, and are currently
in the development stages of additional types of projects. More
details regarding these future projects will be announced at a later
date. In the mean time, we encourage everyone to continue
participating in both the RC5-72 and OGRp2 projects.
Moo!
:: 25-Apr-2007 06:42 GMT (Wednesday) ::
Dear friends,
We would like to announce that we have just recently completed
OGRp2-25.1 (ie: OGR-25 phase 2 sub-phase 1). For a full technical
summary of the current progress and phases of OGR, please see
http://faq.distributed.net/?file=230
We are continuing to make progress on OGRp2-25 (sub-phases 2, 3, 4,
and 5) at this time. Due to the arrangement of the stubs within the
sub-phases, there is less work (fewer total stubs) left for the later
sub-phases. Our current estimated percentage complete for all of the
OGRp2-25 work is ~51.13%, as of 2007-04-25. You can see the current
percentage at http://stats.distributed.net/projects.php?project_id=25
Of course RC5-72 is also actively running, so you can choose to
participate in one or both of our projects.
It is also exciting to be able to announce that this month marks the
10-year anniversary of the start of distributed.net! We thank everyone
that has participated in our projects to date and look forward to
continued success.
Moo!
:: 26-Feb-2007 22:06 GMT (Monday) ::
Hello cows!
I’m now on board to help hack stats code. I’ll also be assisting with manual
retires while the current retire system is overhauled.
:: 06-Jan-2007 22:29 GMT (Saturday) ::
Done toying with stats for the night. If anyone notices anything wrong, drop me
an email
:: 06-Jan-2007 20:09 GMT (Saturday) ::
I’m going to be doing some updates on fritz over the next couple hours.
Apologies in advance if I have to take stats offline for a bit
:: 17-Dec-2006 05:16 GMT (Sunday) ::
There was a planned power outage today that required us to temporarily
shut down our primary webserver (www.distributed.net) and our
keymaster. Power has been restored and things should be catching up
now. All backlogged work that was buffered during the outage should
be getting processed now.
Since we didn’t get much early warning about this outage, we couldn’t
get an announcement out beforehand. Thanks for your patience. Moo!
:: 13-Dec-2006 06:57 GMT (Wednesday) ::
Today 4 new hard drives were installed into Fritz and the RAID array
has been successfully rebuilt. The new drives reportedly have TLER so
hopefully the problems of drives dropping out of the RAID should not
occur anymore. Additionally, we are hoping that the newer FreeBSD
kernel will not freeze whenever the RAID controller resets itself.
Stats should now be online and accessible, though it is currently
re-processing the backlog of data since the time it went offline.
Hopefully it should be fully caught up in a few hours.
Thanks for your patience! Keep crunching!