Update on OGR-25 Emergency

Like I said, the statistics page went off line for ~3 days then it came back with huge amounts of stubspace being resolved in one day. It's really cooled off as you can see by these numbers:

Sorry if I've caused anyone any unnecessary anxiety, but, I think that it will happen again, and that it still may be completed within 15 days even though the number yesterday indicates that in 36 days it will be done, and the number has been increasing every day since the 17% = 5 days at the top of the stats listing.

For instance, gregthecanuck dumped in 700K gnodes yesterday, and my xp computer has 36,400 right now and 129 more packets to go before it's done. Who knows how many buffered gnodes there are lingering all around the world that could be entered in overnight? I've changed both clients to loading 5 packets per cycle now and will watch every day to see when I should upload my xp completed packets.

We might be able to not drop one more rank, depending on how soon the packets run out.

edit -- Doesn't the courier font work for formating text?

Insanity ensues!

Based on yesterday's results, the OGR-25 calculating could be over in 16 days, meanwhile it's a THREE WAY RACE for 5th place, and we're about to be crushed!!!!!



Bet now we all wished we had those 1.2-1.7 GHz G4's.

@Atheist
can't we cheat like the others obviously are? what about combining teams or switching team members like they obviously are?

Hi Swisso,

Something strange definitely happened somewhere along the line, didn't it?

I've been watching the numbers (also RC5-72) a long time and the increase in speeds did seem weird.

I've been thinking for a loooong while that the Russian Bugtraq team may have somehow been uploading the crunching SW to people's computers all over the world, and it runs in the background and they dodn't even know it's THERE! Like a virus. Or maybe some of the members hacked the Russian super-computers at their nuclear research facilities.... Who knows? Maybe their air traffic systems are doing OGR-25???

I do know that when the linux version of OGR-25 for PS3/CELL came out, there was a HUGE jump in solved gnodes.

I read somewhere on the dnetc website, and I can't find it anymore, that there was some new thing where a number sequence was followed to a certain point, and then it could stop being followed as everything after that led to the OGR being bigger, so no more calculations were needed. If that was implemented in the x86 and linux versions but not ours, maybe we were doing too many calculations that didn't need to be done? Of course, if the calculations weren't then done, but the solver moved to the next values, then many more gnodes could have been "completed".

@Atheist

So here we are : OGR-25 is finally over, now all we can do is RC5 crunching with our clients.
However according to bovine's .plan there is already beta for OGR-NG clients, MOS already seems to have a beta too, will we see an updated client too ?

@abalaban

OGR-NG has been running on my A1 since yesterday... Will be uploading new client builds for AmigaOS later today/tonight .

@Futaura

Whoa what a fast guy of you Thank you !

@Futaura

Yes ! Good work

@abalaban

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IMHO this should be posted as a news item.

Varthall

Ooops, wrong forum

New AmigaOS clients now available at http://www.distributed.net/download/prerelease.php

@Futaura

Thanks! What about uploadign them on os4depot and Aminet, as well?

Varthall

@Varthall

Those are still prereleases, also dnet clients has always been on dnet pages.
Maybe adding support for AmiUpdate could be more usefull ?

@abalaban

Hadn't thought of that - yeah, maybe AmiUpdate support is worth looking at. Certainly, the clients should not be uploaded to Aminet or OS4Depot, and indeed anywhere else other than distributed.net - that's a general distributed.net rule (not AmigaOS specific ).

Hopefully only the one person noticed that the new OS4 client crashed on anything other than an A1 with G4/Altivec - there's now an updated v2.9101.507b build available that fixes that bug (I took the opportunity to update the icons too, while I was at it).

@Futaura

I must be "the one person"

Thanks for your fast update

@K-L

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Yep . Glad it's working for you now. Still can't believe I missed that bug in the first place, but then again, it's been over 3 years since I've needed to build a new distributed.net client, so I think I can be excused for being a bit rusty - in a way, it's a miracle I even remembered how the whole process worked

@abalaban

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Excuse me, What exactly is OGR-25?

Hi Futaura,

Any chance of buying an IBrowse key yet?

Or is it the case now that a licensed version comes with AOS4.1? (I think I read that.)

Any rough estimate on IBrowse 3??



About OGR.... Since they're going to 26, we could NEVER compete. We lost two or three spots in ~4 months and would maybe come in at 20th in the next one, IF we're lucky!

The linux/PS3s and quad core intels/AMDs are killing us!

@Atheist

It seems some teams diverted their RC5-72 work effort to OGR-25 during the latter stages, hence why the Amiga team was overtaken. Currently we have just moved up to 7th place in OGR-26.

Of course, there are no rules against using linux/PS3 and quad core PCs in the Amiga team effort . That said, there is no PS3 OGR-NG client yet - apparently due to technicial limitations, it might be some time off yet. Altivec equipped AmigaOne's are still pretty fast at OGR-26 in comparison to most PCs.

This isn't an IBrowse thread - maybe I should change my avatar?

(Removed, OT)