| Kirk Pearson 2005-09-19, 8:46 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).
September 5, 2005
- the distributedcomputing.info ( http://distributedcomputing.info/phpBB )
forum now has an ( http://distributedcomputing.info/phpBB/rss.php ) RSS
feed
- happy birthday ( http://distributedcomputing.info/ap...tml#rieselsieve )
Riesel Sieve! The project turned 2 on August 27. Also, the project
announced on August 28 that it will begin a
( http://rieselsieve.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=476 ) sieving competition
(with prizes) in the next few weeks.
- happy birthday
( http://distributedcomputing.info/ap...ml#proofreaders ) Distributed
Proofreaders! The project turned 5 on September 1. In the past 5 years
it has contributed over 7,400 electronic books (e-books) to
( http://www.gutenberg.org/ ) Project Gutenberg. For comparison, it took
Project Gutenberg 30 years to create its first 5,000 e-books. DP has almost
5,000 more e-books in the proofreading pipeline, with more being added
every day, and can use all of the help it can get. You can help the project
a lot by proofreading even one page every day.
- ( http://distributedcomputing.info/ap...html#majestic12 ) Majestic12
has crawled 1 billion URLs as of today, 8 months after the public beta
release of the client software. Also, version 1.0.7 of the MJ12node client
is available for Windows and Linux as of today. It has many
( http://www.majestic12.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3707 ) new features and
bug fixes. Version 1.0.6, which was released August 29, included many bug
fixes and an important change which requires users to upgrade to the latest
version as soon as possible. Also, a Majestic12 search engine plug-in is
available for the Firefox browser as of August 29.
- the ( http://distributedcomputing.info/ap....html#setiboinc )
SETI@home BOINC project servers are back online as of August 31. Some user
accounts were accidentally deleted on August 26, "causing users to get
'Invalid or missing account key' messages." The accounts were restored by
September 3.
- the ( http://distributedcomputing.info/ap-math.html#15k2n1 ) 15k Prime
Search found prime 904522905 * 2^243046 - 1 on August 26,
944876594805 * 2^222366 - 1 on August 29, 355424355 * 2^290670 - 1 on
August 30, and 231 * 2^668218 - 1 on September 1
--
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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