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There is a new BOINC project called SHA-1 Collision Search Graz which is a cryptography project trying to find a collision in the SHA-1 hashing algorithm. More information about how the project works at the university research group page.
The BOINC page is here:
http://boinc.iaik.tugraz.at/sha1_coll_search/
A writeup on Wired here:
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/200...buted-sha.html
There is a new project called Eternity2 with the aim of solving the Eternity II puzzle. You need to own the actual puzzle to participate. There is a prize of $2,000,000 (two million) USD for whoever finds the solution. If this project finds the solution then the prize money is split 50/50 with the successful participant.
The puzzle itself has an RRP of £35 in the UK or $50 in US.
distributedcomputing.info
Official project site
Now it would be nice if the Statstool Config actually had a selection to enter your project account number so the score of your SHA-1 project would show up on your signature? Sorry Bok, I just found it odd that the project is shown with all the data but no where to enter your list for the signature, probably overwhelmed with other work duties to remember to place that link in the project. When You have time my friend. :Pokes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Digital Parasite
Project Sudoku can be found at http://dist2.ist.tugraz.at/sudoku/home.php
Team is created, still beta for the moment, but I have a linux box getting credit ok.
Stats are exported so can be found at http://stats.free-dc.org/new/projpage.php?proj=sud
Bok
Congrats to BOK for taking the #1 position in Sudoku. :rock:
hehe :) VERY early days though...
:cheers:
Uhhh :umm: :hiya:Quote:
Originally Posted by Bok
Little help needed here. A few Windows boxes would be nice.
My one lonely box is struggling to keep Free-DC in the top 25.
Seems to be steady work.
Pulled one of my boxen off Milkyway and onto NQueens.
Looks like we have stormed back up the table already.
Lets head for that top ten.
Anyone else fancy a box or two on NQueens?
in recent average credit on NQueens AND we are up to 14th overall from 25th.
Great job everyone so far. :thumbs: :cheers:
Another recent project. TSP site
Lauren - wanna try breaking it? :rotfl: I heard the server is a ThinkPad
DP is currently leading the way for FDC.
Na I never did like Salesman so I am not going to help them with there Problem :lmao:Quote:
Originally Posted by Angus
That way I can help get rid of the Traveling Salesman Problem :rotfl:
Here is a new BOINC project out of Harved with a very professional looking site:
http://cleanenergy.harvard.edu/go/
"The Clean Energy project uses computational chemistry and the willingness of people to help look for the best molecules possible for: organic photovoltaics to provide inexpensive solar cells, polymers for the membranes used in fuel cells for electricity generation, and how best to assemble the molecules to make those devices. By helping us search combinatorially among thousands of potential systems, you can contribute to this effort."
Am I the only one that obsessively visits that site every few days to click on every possible link to get updates? It involves two things I'm very much interested in, DCing and clean energy science(as opposed to global warming science, which seems like bunkum a lot of the time). If Stephen King were involved in the project, I'd need to start taking tranquilizers. ;)
Could we add Artificial Intelligence System?
It's attempting to simulate the human brain.
The site isn't very pretty, but it's a cool concept, and I've never had trouble with the client, though it's been a few weeks since I've run it.
Microsoft Windows (98 or later) running on an Intel x86-compatible CPU 1.04 9 Mar 2008 21:13:44 UTC
Linux running on an Intel x86-compatible CPU 1.04 9 Mar 2008 21:13:44 UTC
http://www.intelligencerealm.com/aisystem/news.php
http://www.intelligencerealm.com/aisystem/top_teams.php
19th place with 3 members
Jason Goatcher
Angus
NEBOJSA
I added it at least a month ago...
http://stats3.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=proj&proj=int
Bok
It doesn't show on stats.free-dc.org in the big list...
Jason must ahve heard footsteps and started returning WUs today :)
nope, I'm not retrofitting projects back to the old style any more, concentrating instead on getting these live.. which may be end of this week.
use this
as the definitive list..
Bok
this is a new project that hasssnt been updating on FREE-DC.
Bok anything you can add as to why it isnt being updated???
i know it prolly server side on their end but just wana make sure...
yup.Server-side.
They aren't updating their xml files, probably don't have the cronjob set up correctly..
I've posted about it over there and also emailed Kamran who is running the project.
Bok
done.
just an oversight... :)
Ars definitely needs some :Pokes:. Oh, wait a minute, yes, we are :bonk:, I couldn't find a kicking your butt emoticon.
Are we going to have a forum for VTU?
sure.
added
Dang, you're fast. :)
Don't forget to add it into ??? so it shows up when new messages are left in there, like the one she just made to let Fozzie know he is going to be leap frogged in VTU ;)
Done.
Do you not know how to do that ? It's pretty simple, here goes :)
Go to Control-Panel, VBA CMPS->Default Settings and click the 'Recent Posts' and use CTRL to add in the new forum which won't be highlighted :) Then save.
Nope, I didn't. I'm sure the question was directed at IB but thanks for the info. :)
I'm sure I'll remember that in about 3 months when we have to add another Forum :rolleyes:
Hay IB :Pokes: did you know that you can
Go to the Control-Panel, VBA CMPS->Default Settings and click the 'Recent Posts' and use CTRL to add in the new forum which won't be highlighted Then save. :hugging:
Good to know! :thumbs:
You know what we need is a list of all current BOINC projects and a link to attach with
Like this
ABC@Home = http://abcathome.com/
AlmereGrid = http://boinc.almeregrid.nl/
Doable as a sticky I'm sure.
Sync(Boinc Projects.thread(this), Stats.thread('new projects');
The stats pages all have links to the projects.. perhaps a small 'home' icon could be placed on each row on the index page which links to the project home ?
I suppose that's possible a little icon all depends on the size of it really, hmm
dang just checked to see if there was a web / wingdings "character" we could use nope...
add new Projects to you STAT
http://edges-ext-dg.ceta-ciemat.es/3gbp/index.php
http://edges-ext-dg.ceta-ciemat.es/3gbp/top_teams.php
I'm running it on one machine..
No xml is being exported so it can't be added yet..... :) but I'm watching it along with a few others.
Bok
Goldbach is just sending out useless UpperCase WUs en masse, to keep such a destructive project in the stats is imho a bad sign.
It's OK for projects to do some initial testing "in the wild" with UpperCase, but after a few thousand, at most for about 1000 credits, it's just wilful stealing from other projects and it's obvious that the project is just a scam.
Even BelgianBeer needed only ~650 credits to get it all running smooth and rightfully stopped than because nothing useful was developed. Goldbach has so far crunched nearly 600.000 of the useless stuff, 1000x of what was needed by the total amateurs of BelgianBeer.
IMHO a stats page that includes such scam-projects isn't a good stats page.
You can argue whether the science behind some projects is something worthwhile (imho prime search isn't worth a single CPU-second), but at least they are doing science, Goldbach is doing nothing!:mad:
I agree they are doing useless work, which is why I have it attached to one machine with a low resource share and that's exactly how it should be in my opinion. Let the users decide what they want to run, they can make their own decisions after all - who are you or we to 'police' this. My policy is to display the stats not pick and choose which ones I feel are correct and should be included. I do not condone an 'overseer' approach. If we start down that path, then where does it end... ? Should we dilute the ridiculous amounts of credits that MilkyWay gave out ? Cosmology? Even Primegrid manual give out pretty high credits.. No, I'm not going down that path, I much prefer to let users decide on their own.
Isn't that very nice coming over here and telling us we have a 'bad' stats page.
Bok
Up until now I considered you a good stats page, and my suggestion was only to let you be this. You really don't care whether a project is just a scam or doing real work?
I don't want a judgement about the science done in the project, but no science at all is soemthing quite different. Fake projects, that only steal CPU-power for worthless junk should not be supported by the communities, they should be named and shamed.
The credit discussion in general is something that should be sorted in the project mailing list in Berkeley. There were (and still are in some areas) irregularities, but at least those projects delivered science, not plain junk.
I would not consider it a fake project though. That's where I think your argument falls down. The admin is pretty responsive and adamant that he will be putting out real work at some point. Yes, the UpperCase app is useless and he should have only put out a few wu's, I completely agree, but that, in itself, does not make it a 'scam'. I think you should take the argument to Goldbach instead. Once they start doing real work they should reset the credits - problem solved.
Start a poll if you like and let the users decide whether to remove Goldbach from the stats.
As I say, I don't want to police it, but I would respect the wishes of the community.
Bok
I don't want an account there, I'm no fan of such math projects, and as they haven't included BOINC-wide-teams yet I'm not in there involuntary as well.
I have asked some of my team-mates to start a discussion over there, I hope they will do so.
Is this the same Goldbach as in the Goldbach Conjecture in mathematics relating to prime number searching ???
It sound a little like you want us to be a Big Brother to the DC world.
From what I know Free-DC was founded on the Idea of Freedom to help out in what ever project we or we as a whole wanted
And that is why the members of Free-DC put out World Class Stats for ALL Projects.
If you don't like our Stats you are free to get the Info elsewhere
The Change you want to bring about should start at the source not here.