| Kirk Pearson 2005-07-03, 5:46 pm |
| The following updates are from the distributedcomputing.info website
( http://distributedcomputing.info/ ). These updates cover public distributed
computing projects (projects in which anyone can participate).
June 16, 2005
- ( http://distributedcomputing.info/ap...html#sierpinski ) Seventeen or
Bust found prime 27653 * 2^9167433 + 1 (2,759,677 digits) yesterday. It has
9 primes (of the original 17) left to find. This new prime is the largest
non-Mersenne prime ever discovered.
- ( http://distributedcomputing.info/ap...tml#rieselsieve ) Riesel Sieve
found prime 110413 * 2^1591999 - 1 on June 8. A new riesel.dat file is
available as of June 8.
- ( http://distributedcomputing.info/ap-science.html#cpdn )
climateprediction.net has completed over 7 million model years of climate
simulation as of yesterday
- ( http://distributedcomputing.info/ap....html#setiboinc ) SETI@home
BOINC had a 3-hour outage on June 14 to create a full backup of its database.
The project posted detailed technical news updates on June 13 and 14 about
recent server and database issues.
- version 2.6.3 of the ( http://distributedcomputing.info/ap-math.html#ECMNET )
ECMNet client/server is available as of June 14. It fixes a small typo in the
server for version 2.6.2.
- pre-release version 2.9010.495 of the
( http://distributedcomputing.info/ap...stributeddotnet )
distributed.net client for the X86 platform has been withdrawn. Pre-release
version 2.9011.496 is available for some platforms as of June 8 and for
others as of yesterday.
- new ( http://distributedcomputing.info/news.html#050614 ) news article: a
suggestion to add distributed computing clients to the upcoming Xbox 360 and
Playstation 3 game consoles
- new ( http://distributedcomputing.info/news.html#050609 ) news article:
cell phone use on airplanes could drown out the faint signals from space that
radio astronomers and projects like SETI need for their research
--
Kirk Pearson, editor of http://distributedcomputing.info (news and
information about public distributed computing projects)
"Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug." -- John Lithgow
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