Distributed Computing - Internet-based Distributed Computing Projects updates for October 4, 2004

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Internet-based Distributed Computing Projects updates for October 4, 2004

Kirk Pearson

2004-10-04, 5:45 pm

The following updates are from the Internet-based Distributed Computing
Projects website ( http://www.aspenleaf.com/distributed/ ). These updates
cover public distributed computing projects (projects in which anyone can
participate).

October 4, 2004

- the final ( http://www.aspenleaf.com/distribute...s.html#dfolding )
Distributed Folding client update will occur tomorrow (October 5) at 11 AM
EST (6 PM UTC), when the project will officially end. This update should
"gracefully exit" the client on any machine running it. After the update no
results will be able to be uploaded and no information will be able to be
changed on the project website.

- ( http://www.aspenleaf.com/distribute...ath.html#nfsnet ) NFSNET
completed sieving 6^257 + 1 on October 2, and completed the factorization
of 3^491 + 1 on September 30

- ( http://www.aspenleaf.com/distribute...html#cyclotomic )
Factorizations of Cyclotomic Numbers completed factoring the Phi(112) series
by September 25

- the ( http://www.aspenleaf.com/distribute...#multifactorial )
Search for Multifactorial Primes found prime 58,298!3 - 1 (84,173 digits)
today

- ( http://www.aspenleaf.com/distribute...h.html#11smooth ) ElevenSmooth
found a P28 factor of M(95040) on September 18: this is the first known
factor of the primitive part of M(95040)

- the ( http://www.aspenleaf.com/distribute...ath.html#15k2n1 ) 15k*2^n-1
club found prime 23,662,575 * 2^23,456 - 1 on September 30

- ( http://www.aspenleaf.com/distribute....html#lhcathome ) LHC@home
has decided not to reset user credits from the beta test because the testers
contributed useful work results. Also, as of October 2 the project's
database is having performance problems, but the project will get a new
server soon to fix the problem. As of today, the project ran out of work
units and may have service interruptions because of the database problems.
You may want to switch to another project for a few days.

- on October 1 the
( http://www.aspenleaf.com/distribute...tml#hardwareevo )
Distributed hardware Evolution Project successfully evolved a large number
of "circuits with full concurrent error detection using only 14% of the
overhead required by the conventional approach," and began evolving a new
generation of circuits "as big as those used in industry, many of them using
hundreds of gates"

- new tool:
( http://www.aspenleaf.com/distribute....html#d2oldaddy ) D2OL
Daddy makes sure your
( http://www.aspenleaf.com/distribute...ml#communityTSC )
CommunityTSC and
( http://www.aspenleaf.com/distribute...ences.html#d2ol ) D2OL
processes are running at the lowest possibly priority

- the new ( http://www.aspenleaf.com/distribute...html#setiathome )
SETI@home project has released a
( http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_graphics.php ) guide for customizing
the client's graphics

- the ( http://www.aspenleaf.com/distributed/ap-math.html#pies ) P.I.E.S.
project owner has blocked his project website from viewers (and potential
participants) in the US, the UK, Australia, Denmark, and other countries
which "support the US's war on Iraq." This is the first project to restrict
participation for political reasons.

- the ( http://www.aspenleaf.com/distribute...ecent.html#ASRG )
Analytical Spectroscopy Research Group (ASRG) SETI project seems to no
longer be active

- new ( http://www.aspenleaf.com/distribute...ews.html#040929 ) news
article: an overview of the ( http://toolbar.google.com/dc/offerdc.html )
Google Compute application for the ( http://toolbar.google.com/ ) Google
Toolbar

--
Kirk Pearson, editor of Internet-based Distributed Computing Projects
http://www.aspenleaf.com/distributed/
Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug. -- John Lithgow