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distributedcomputing.info updates for January 12, 2005
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| | From: | Kirk Pearson | | Subject: | distributedcomputing.info updates for January 12, 2005 | | Date: | 13 Jan 2005 17:05:27 -0700 |
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 | January 12, 2005
- new computing platform:
( http://distributedcomputing.info/platforms.html#darwinathome ) Darwin@Home
will sponsor and host distributed computing research projects to "create
networked digital ecosystems" and "observe lifelike evolutionary processes
in virtual or robotic space." No projects are available for the platform
yet.
- new active distributed charity:
( http://distributedcomputing.info/ap-charity.html#puppet ) Polska Strona
Gtodu (The Polish Hunger Site) "provides children from the poorest families
with one hot meal a day" to help them stay in school and gain an education
- new active distributed human project:
( http://distributedcomputing.info/ap-human.html#specsearch ) Speculative
Search Game lets "you predict which web pages will rank more highly on
Google in the future. The output of the game will be used to build a
Speculative Search Engine that ranks those web pages more highly today."
- new (to this site) active mathematics project:
( http://distributedcomputing.info/ap-math.html#lmh ) Lone Mersenne Hunters
looks for Mersenne prime numbers which have not been tested by other
projects or by GIMPS' Primenet server
- new (to this site) active mathematics project(s):
( http://distributedcomputing.info/ap-math.html#factoring ) Factoring: a
collection of factoring projects
- ( http://distributedcomputing.info/platforms.html#grid ) United Devices won
a Computerworld 2004 ( http://www.cwheroes.org/caa_4_a_press.asp?id=5033 )
21st Century Achievement Award for innovation in medicine on June 7, 2004
- ( http://distributedcomputing.info/recent.html#zetagrid ) ZetaGrid
officially ended yesterday after completing its fourth goal (computing 1
trillion non-trivial zeros) on December 30, 2004. The project will continue
to run for a little while. The project servers and software may be used
for another project, such as the Extended Riemann Hypothesis, in the future.
- ( http://distributedcomputing.info/ap-lsciences.html#predictor )
Predictor@home is active again as of yesterday, and account registration is
open
- ( http://distributedcomputing.info/ap-science.html#eon ) eOn has moved to
the University of Texas at Austin, and has a new
( http://eon.cm.utexas.edu/ ) URL. If you have the eOn client installed,
you must reinstall it to use the new URL. All user and group stats have
been preserved.
- ( http://distributedcomputing.info/recent.html#dfolding ) Distributed
Folding's CASP6 results are available on the project website as of December
24, 2004
- ( http://distributedcomputing.info/ap-math.html#cyclotomic ) Factorizations
of Cyclotomic Numbers completed the factorization of the Phi(168) series on
December 24, 2004
- the ( http://distributedcomputing.info/ap-math.html#15k2n1 ) 15k Prime
Search found primes 2995125705 * 2^499082 - 1 on January 8 and
515106735 * 2^319626 - 1 on January 10
- the ( http://distributedcomputing.info/ap-math.html#multifactorial ) Search
for Multifactorial Primes found prime 99088!6 + 1 (75,339 digits) on
December 26, 2004
- both ( http://distributedcomputing.info/ap-science.html#setinew ) New
SETI@home and
( http://distributedcomputing.info/ap-science.html#seticlassic ) Classic
SETI@home were affected by an extended power outage, caused by nearby
building construction, on January 10. Both project servers are operational
now.
- the latest version of the Rosetta client used by the
( http://distributedcomputing.info/ap-lsciences.html#proteome ) Human
Proteome Folding project is available as of December 28, 2004. It uses
much less meory than the previous version: about 26 MB Real Memory and
about 200 MB Virtual Memory. Your World Community Grid or United Devices
client should download the new core automatically.
- beta version 3.5 of the
( http://distributedcomputing.info/ap-math.html#rieselsieve ) Riesel Sieve
LLRNet command-line client is available for testing on Windows and Linux as
of January 10. This version should become official in the next week. An
updated Windows GUI client should be available soon. The new client is
MUCH faster than the previous version.
- version 1.8 of the ( http://distributedcomputing.info/ap-math.html#sigps )
SIGPS genefer80 client is available for P4 Cygwin and Linux as of January 7
- as of January 9,
( http://distributedcomputing.info/ap-math.html#sierpinski ) Seventeen or
Bust users with regular user accounts can also perform second-pass tests of
numbers the project has already tested once. This feature will be included
in a future client, but for now it requires a bit of hacking for the
Windows client. Details are available in the project forum.
- new ( http://distributedcomputing.info/news.html#050110 ) news article:
companies are adopting commercial grid computing cautiously
- new ( http://distributedcomputing.info/news.html#050110-2 ) news article:
supercomputers are evolving into grid and distributed computers
- new ( http://distributedcomputing.info/news.html#050109 ) news article:
traditional encyclopaedists feel threatened by
( http://distributedcomputing.info/ap-knowledge.html#wikipedia ) Wikipedia
- new ( http://distributedcomputing.info/news.html#050107 ) news article:
( http://distributedcomputing.info/ap-knowledge.html#wikipedia ) Wikipedia
co-founder Jimmy Wales talks about
( http://distributedcomputing.info/ap-knowledge.html#wikinews ) Wikinews
--
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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