Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 12:55:21 +1000 (EST) From: Nicholas Charles Brawn <ncb05@uow.edu.au> To: Chris Browning <brownicm@netunlimited.net> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, nik@iii.co.uk Subject: RE: SETI@home -- you are not alone... Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980805123101.25125A-100000@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980804142619.brownicm@netunlimited.net>
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On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Chris Browning wrote:
> I came across the SETI@home thing about a year ago and
> thought it was just too cool. Waiting to participate. If
> they port it to freebsd, that will be one more machine I
> can run it on. What's RC5?
>
Have a look at www.distributed.net. To try to sum it up, it's a huge
collaborative and networked effort to crack rc5-64.
Upon checking the stats, there were a few interesting figures:
(Under top 100 teams listing)
2 Japan FreeBSD Users Group 31506372 282 days 3-Aug 347116.63
The second highest team in the cracking effort is our mates over in .jp!
14 Team FreeBSD 6801812 285 days 3-Aug 74149.10
There we are again at the 14th position. :)
(Under top 100 participants)
1 rc5@jp.freebsd.org 13097280 257 days 3-Aug 158333.98
Woohoo!@ Number 1! :)
We're not going that badly in the os rankings either, coming fifth (out of
29 different os's) after:
Operating System Blocks
(1) Win32 (95/NT) 684298016
(2) MacOS 168676713
(3) Linux 143123548
(4) Solaris 88381106
(5) FreeBSD 31722642
A few other notable inclusions:
(13) BSDI 3312926
(20) NetBSD 1291470
(28) OpenBSD 36648
Sidenote: It was amusing to see vms and rhapsody topping openbsd :)
Nick
ps, all these stats came from http://rc5stats.distributed.net
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