Topic: RC5-64

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OZONE Asylum completed 4,087 blocks yesterday at a sustained rate of 12,698 Kkeys/second!
OZONE Asylum is ranked #989 for yesterday!
The odds are 1 in 11,031 that this team will find the key before anyone else does.

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Anybody else gonna join the fun? Expect my first contribution in about uh.. 6 minutes. (00 UTC) For those that may have missed it:

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For raw processing power, I use the RC5-65 cracking challenge software at http://www.distributed.net/ - it's a fun way to show off your idle CPU power, and a great way to benchmark your systems, one simple well-written app to take all of your CPU and crunch numbers with it. By this measurement, my 450Mhz Mac is about 60% faster than my 850Mhz PIII, go figure. I've been thinking about maybe setting up a special Asylum team for cracking RC5-64, anyone interested? It'd be a fun way to show off our processing might, heh.

OK; I just set up a new team, the Ozone Asylum. FWIW, I'm crunching keys at a sustained rate of 15,090 KKeys/sec between all of my machines, go beat that, hah! If you want to join, sign up as a single user, and run the app on all of your machines as that user. Once your stats get into the database, you'll be able to join the team (after you've logged in) by following this link... http://stats.distributed.net/pjointeam.php3?team=885184470 - and once the stats get recorded tomorrow you can check your ranking at http://stats.distributed.net/rc5-64/tmsummary.php3?team=885184470 (Note! These urls probably won't work yet, they need a day to register the team.)
PS: My 2 macintoshes account for 80% of my keys cracked. I love my Mac!

Your pal, -doc-

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-cyoung

mmm this is the same kind off fun as seti@home... oh well let's see what my thunderbird can do...

~Rinswind ~

Rinswind, cool. Looks like we ranked #825 for yesterday.. more members should bringit up a bit more.

Can't decide what I'd do with the cash on the off chance we actually find the key but I've narrowed it down to either a wacom and misc goodies or a dual monitor set up. What's everybody's opinion? Which comes first, the second monitor or the wacom?

I almost missed this topic and I think this would be something cool to do. I think the origional reason I missed the thread is that it meant nothing to me, geesh its like naming a movie THX-1138.

<edit>got it up and running, when my stats get recorded I will join the team</edit?





[This message has been edited by moaiz (edited 08-22-2001).]

You can view the team stats at this address...
http://stats.distributed.net/rc5-64/tmsummary.php3?team=885184470

You need to have sent blocks in before they do their big DB update at midnight, takes a couple of hours, usually. Once you're in the database, you can choose how you'll be viewable, nickname, email, or USER#362514! =) Heh, between all of my machines I crunch between 4600 and 5000 blocks a day, I'm *sure* someone has to be sitting on some big CPUs? Show off! Drop out the day after you put us all to shame, but have a day of fun!

Your pal, -doc-

No way I'll compete with you Doc.. I could steal my kids iMac.. and I do have an old performa 476 in a box somewhere.. 68k.. 25mHz.. nah. Think I'll just stick to being a team player.

Sorry about the title Moaiz, too little sleep= too literal this time. Shoulda titled it.. Win Big! or Free Software!

-user 363081

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.....@dev-null.net's stats
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Current Ranking: 166,902 (72196)
Total Blocks to Search: 68,719,476,736
Total Blocks Tested: 2,435
Keyspace Checked: 0.00000354%
Total Keys Tested: 653,640,335,360
Time Working: 2 days
Overall Rate: 3,783 KKeys/sec
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2,228 blocks were completed yesterday (0.00000324% of the keyspace)
at a sustained rate of 6,922 KKeys/sec! Ranked 4,842 for the day.

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Damn! Somebody's got some cpu to spare. Bumped the team up a bit in the rankings too.. cool. I missed the deadline yesterday but I'm still crunching. Better numbers tomorrow for the team.. below average for me.. I played some games and shut down for a thunderstorm.

-cyoung

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RC5-64 / Team #885184470 (OZONE Asylum) Summary
Total Members: 3

Current Rank: 8,233
Total blocks to search: 68,719,476,736
Total blocks checked: 42,153
Days working: 7
Overall Rate: 18,709.26 kkeys/second

OZONE Asylum completed 7,546 blocks yesterday at a sustained rate of 23,445 Kkeys/second!
OZONE Asylum is ranked #591 for yesterday!
The odds are 1 in 5,904 that this team will find the key before anyone else does.

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Your pal, -doc-



[This message has been edited by DocOzone (edited 08-26-2001).]

I dont even get what this is

Ok I get it uses your computer to fidn something but what and howdo I join the ozone team?

Nevex- go to http://www1.distributed.net/download/clients.html then scroll down and find your specific platform and click either http or ftp to the right of it, depending on which way you prefer to transfer the file. Install the program, configure it to taste then follow Docs instructions in the second quote of the initial post of this thread. Welcome aboard!

-cyoung

edit: #591? I'm thinking if we get a few more asylumites on the case we can hit the top 100. Has anybody mentioned the big cash prize for finding the key?

[This message has been edited by cyoung (edited 08-26-2001).]

What original post?

Does your internet connection effect your results? If not, then I'll sign up. I have a 56k and slooooow is the only speed it has.

Nevex.. the first post in this thread:

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If you want to join, sign up as a single user, and run the app on all of your machines as that user. Once your stats get into the database, you'll be able to join the team (after you've logged in) by following this link... http://stats.distributed.net/pjointeam.php3?team=885184470 - and once the stats get recorded tomorrow you can check your ranking at http://stats.distributed.net/rc5-64/tmsummary.php3?team=885184470

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Once you've run the program and completed some work packets you need to give it a day, then go to your stats page. From there you can click a button to have them e-mail your password to you. Once you have the password you can join the team with the link above.

El Grande.. you don't need an active internet connection to participate if that's what youre asking. I only connect to their server once a day to download new work packets and upload completed work packets. You can set it to any time frame you like.. a day works for me. CPU usage effects your results in the respect that you'll get less done the more you use your system. The beautifull thing about this app is that it doesn't compete with other programs for resources.. it uses only whats available at the moment so you can carry on as usual. The file transfers back and forth are quick and painless too. I'm on 56K.. but rarely connect faster than 50K. There's also a monsterously informative FAQ at distributed.net that can probably answer questions better than I, but I'm happy to help if I can.

-cyoung

Although the question poses itself...where is the original thread? And WTF is this all about. SOunds interesting though. I have 36 P800's here that aren't being used most of the time, amybe I should set it up on them.

Oh yeah, i also have 24 MAC G4 dual processor machines in the grahpics department...I'll talk to my graphics teacher.




In the beginning, there was the word...and the word was 'God', although by the time it reached the other end of the phone line... the word was 'Gznd'

The original thread (formerly known as "the new Mac") is here: http://www.OzoneAsylum.com/Forum1/HTML/002271.html It would be a thing of beauty to see all those machines crunching for the Asylum! You'll find the answers to all your questions at the distributed.net website.

-cyoung

I have a 800eb 133mhz processor what should my settings be?

How do I join the team also??

Well its procesing stuff. I got no idea how to look myself up or how to join a team. Doc can ya help me out with how to login in, where do I get a password?



[This message has been edited by Nevex (edited 08-27-2001).]

*bump* Two machines now running it. I need info on how to login and join the team.

Nevex, go to this page and enter the e-mail address you used to configure the client in the box at the top center of the page. This will bring you to your stats page. At the bottom of your stats page is a button that says "e-mail me my password" click that and your password will be sent to the e-mail you specified in the set-up. Once you have your password hit this link to join the team. The FAQ's are here if you have trouble.

-cyoung

edit: Forgot to mention that it takes 24 hours for your stats page to show up so it might not be there yet.
edit #2.. why didn't I see that typo the first time?



[This message has been edited by cyoung (edited 08-28-2001).]

I got it on 3 machiens right now, cant wait till 24 hours is over and I can get my password.

Its been well over 24hours, Mine is crunching like crazy and I still see nothing for my email bynevex@earthlink.net. How long did it take you all?

Heh oh well, I tryed to be apart of something. YOu guys seem to be either busy or not doing this anymore. They still haven posted any of my stats up. I think I may delete this after all.

Hey! I'm still doing this! Yesterday was a rough one, I've had DNS problems like crazy, so only 4,125 blocks got through from my machines, but tomorrow! That oughtta be good, I expect over 5,000. I don't know why more people don't get into this, at least for a day or 3. It truly rocks to find out just how many CPU cycles you're worth, many of us have more computer power at our fingertips than we realize! When I started doing this back in 1998, on a good day I could do perhaps 500 blocks, my! How I've grown.

Current Rank: 7,646
Total blocks to search: 68,719,476,736
Total blocks checked: 64,786
Days working: 10
Overall Rate: 20,128.31 kkeys/second

OZONE Asylum completed 7,983 blocks yesterday at a sustained rate of 24,802 Kkeys/second!
OZONE Asylum is ranked #638 for yesterday!
The odds are 1 in 6,735 that this team will find the key before anyone else does.

(Stats for yesterday)
1 Dr. Thaddeus Ozone - 4,125 51.67 44,549 68.76
2 dev-null@dev-null.net - 2,567 32.16 11,599 17.90
3 Participant #363,081 - 1,291 16.17 8,638 13.33



Your pal, -doc-

I'm doing it too, and I've got two computers at home running it. I'd put it on my laptop here at work, but the Adobe firewall has futzed me again. TEAM REJECTED. Anyway, I added myself to the group, and one of my computers is currently offline, but the better one is still running strong and fast and hopefully will help a bit.

Nevex, their stats page is futzed up. I do a search for my email, and it doesn't show up... but sometimes it does. I got it once by luck yesterday and got my password emailed to me... it doesn't show up now, but it's there if I follow the link in the email... I think I'll visit other peoples' stats and click the "email me my password" button repetitively.

Weird. I mean imagine hte Asylum completing this. Stil bothers me like 4 days I think into this and still no stats. I hit the refresh page button like 200 times.

Edit: Didnt want to make another post.





[This message has been edited by Nevex (edited 08-29-2001).]

Nevex that's strange. I had no trouble after a day. The only thing I can think of would be to make sure you entered the e-mail address correctly (no typos) in the configuration and that you have in fact "flushed" some work to them. Look under Commands>Configure>General Client options to check if the address is correct. Choose Commands>Update to send and recieve work. Sorry bout the slow reply.. kinda busy sometimes.

Hey Doc, must be the slogan line will accept html? Ahh.. nevermind, I'll find out. Do they make straight jackets for personal pixel people?

-cyoung

I think I might have figured out your problem, Nevex... I just solved it for myself anyway. Go to the main page of the site... you click on statistics... now, what I was doing wrong was I was looking under the OGR-24 stats... what I should have been doing was looking under the OGR-25 stats. Try that if you haven't.

Except we are working solely on RC5-64.. so as not to spread ourselves too thin. Go to Commands>Buffer and buffer update options, then you want choice 8 to look like so- 8) Load-work precedence ==> DES=0,CSC=0,OGR=0,RC5
Then of course you'll want the RC5-64 stats. Course if you wanna crunch on all of 'em who's gonna stop ya?

-cyoung

Whoa! Hold it right there, I'll stop you. We could work on one of the other competitions, and devote only 25% of our CPU time to RC5, but what points will that earn us? Who wants to be well rounded? We want the BIG STATS, heh. Really, I'm not doing this thing out of any altruistic desire to build a better world through key decryption, I want to se just how fast my machines are, and compete and compare with my friends, SO! May as well compete solely in RC5, as I do. =)

Your pal, -doc-

Well, I changed it to RC5 before you guys even told me about that... because I noticed my name was on the team only on the OGR stats, and everyone else was on the RC5 stats... but I was trying to help Nevex find his stats so he can join.

Well I am working on them all and kickign ass, and I just flushed like a crapload of packets to them, Maybe next update I wil see something. I wasnt doing the flushing. I dont knwo what he was talkign about going to comand configure flush orwhateve where the fack is that?? I used the tray icon to do it.

Choose Commands>Update to send and recieve work ??? Lsot me there bro heh. Like I said I used the tray to flush and fetch.

Doc could we get a forum for this? So you cna post daily updates to what our team status is? I think by next updat by them I wil be able to join team.


[This message has been edited by Nevex (edited 08-30-2001).]

I'm in...

whew. that thing crunches 12h per day... i have a sloooow pc .

http://stats.distributed.net/rc5-64/tmsummary.php3?team=885184470

u-neek, make sure you're not running all of the different tests! They have 4 competitions going, and by default it'll share it's time between each. Go to the config, and follow 2) Buffer blah, and then 9) Load-work preference. Set that to RC5,OGR=0,DES=0,CSC=0 and it'll just crunch RC5, nothing else.

I was looking at the 3D forum, and moaiz' new black pill rendering, that took something like 19 hours to render. I wonder if it'd be possible to build a distributed 3D rendering engine? Think of the things we could do!

Your pal, -doc-

I'll hold off on specific instruction in the future. It appears there are some significant differences between various platforms. My replies were based on the PPC version that I am running. As far as the distributed 3D renderer.. that's way over my head but Doc if you build it, I'll run it.

-cyoung

I don't know exactly if it's what you're talking about, but 3DStudio allows for network rendering... I always thought it was so you could network a bunch of machines and distribute the rendering process. I am probably wrong though, as is often pointed out to me.

Well I've tracked down the fastest computer in the building down and set it to work but I also am having a bit of trouble getting my password. My understanding is that you can summon your stats forth by putting your email in this URL:
http://stats.distributed.net/rc5-64/psearch.php3?st=doc@bugtown.com
http://stats.distributed.net/rc5-64/psearch.php3?st=cyoung@wildslide.com

But this:
http://stats.distributed.net/rc5-64/psearch.php3?st=emperor@evilemail.com

currently not giving me anything. Is it just that I have to wait a day or so? I know my contribution of c. 2.2 Mkeys/s isn't going to change any team stats (esp. as I'm off away from the computers for the weekend) I was just intrigued to know what this computer could do.

On the flush front running on an NT PC you just right click on the cow in the tray and select flush.

I'm not sure how the stats are worked out: it says that the good Doctor has been doing this since 19th August 2001 and yet has been working on it for 1400 days!!

Emps



[This message has been edited by Emperor (edited 08-30-2001).]

You have to wait a day or so... and make sure you are searching the right stats. I had been sending out OGR stats, and trying to find my name in the RC4 stats... doesn't work that way.

Yes, I'm runnung only that RC-5 project, but i'm on a AMD K6-II with 500mhz !!

I found the problem see it was running rc5 last on the list and was running all 4. Now its like this.
[parameters]
id=bynevex@earthlink.net

[logging]
log-file=crunch.log
log-file-type=rotate

[triggers]
pause-on-high-cpu-temp=yes

[misc]
project-priority=RC5,

[rc5]
randomprefix=88

For some reason the "," is needed after the rc5 on mine.

mine:

[parameters]
id=u-neek@spiritual-pixel.com

[display]
progress-indicator=auto-sense

[misc]
project-priority=DES=0,CSC=0,OGR=0,RC5

Thanks for the comments - I can wait.

This is an interesting experiment to show what kind of power can be assembled by the Asylum (there are after all 1400+ people here - a small percentage of them all doing the same thing would be quite something) but the possibilities are far more intriguing. It would also be a nice touch if as a community we could help Inmates with occasional big processing requirements (if that is possible). They make some of their code available:
http://www.distributed.net/source

and they may be open to its uses in other projects. However, I don't know anything about the logistics of such things so it might all be unworkable (then again that's partly what this forum is about!!).

Perhaps (as has been said) a new forum (distributed processing) might be a good idea to throw around ideas and provided updates on Team Asylum's progress (I only stumbled across this obscurely titled posting by accident).

Just a thought.

Emps