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Date:      Wed, 26 Nov 1997 12:25:13 +0200 (EET)
From:      Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
To:        Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Japan FreeBSDers really cracking that RC5!
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971126121050.16862A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
In-Reply-To: <347B00A8.1770F31@fsl.noaa.gov>

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On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Sean Kelly wrote:

> I was just looking over the stats of the RC5-64 cracking effort
> (http://rc5stats.distributed.net).  FreeBSD users in Japan are kicking
> butt!
> 
> According to the "Top 100 Overall" list the team "Japan FreeBSD Users
> Group" has been in the running for only six days and have already taken
> 7th place.  Just yesterday, the "individual" rc5@jp.freebsd.org held
> first place beating rc5@linux.or.jp with over twice as many blocks
> checked.
> 
> Other teams in the top ten have been there for about a month or more. 
> But the Japan FreeBSD Users Group has a decent amount of blocks under
> its belt (628,000) and in only six days time.  It will still take an
> monumental effort to unseat the first place team, the Apple
> EvangeListas, who have done over four million blocks.

They have as much blocks as the next three after them, and their key rate
is as much as JFUG + the Amiga Camp just ahead of them in blocks...
 
> (Those Apple users have an incredible rc5 client.  Is there an
> instruction on the PowerPC called "CRK-RC5" which does a key check in a
> single cycle?)

Hmmm... A PPC604e is about the same as a PPro on the same Mhz. The trick
is, PPC604e-s go up to 350MHz.

> Team FreeBSD is looking a bit green next to this.  But hey, if they're
> helping promote FreeBSD, more power to them!
> 
> --Sean
> 

The interesting part is under the link "Too much detail". Like stats for
Solaris for MIPS, Alpha & PA RISC and OS/2 for MIPS & Alpha.


	Sander

	There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future -
	all these are just illusions.






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