RE: [TCLUG:2796] Distributed.net team

[Gabe Turner <dopp@acm.cs.umn.edu>]

I can put it on my network server (p-133) and on my main machine (p-200MMX)....

Gabe 

On 14-Dec-98 Eric Hillman wrote:
>   In case any of you hadn't been paying attention, our Distributed.net RC5
> cracking team has risen to 1352nd place out of 5,442 registered teams,
> placing us in the top 25% of all teams registered.  Not bad, but we can
> probably do better.
> 
> http://rc5stats.distributed.net/cgi/tm_members.idc?TM=6533
> 
>    I'm running the RC5 client on two machines at home, and three here at
> work.  I realize not everybody has access to quite that many computers, but
> even a single Pentium-166 working while you're away from the keyboard can
> crank through about a hundred blocks in a day.  I'm guessing as few as 3-5
> additions to the team could push us into the top 1000 pretty quickly.
> 
>    The rc5 client is very small, and in "extremely nice" mode is virtally
> unnoticeable on anything larger than a P-166.  I run it constantly, even
> when I'm working, and I haven't noticed any significant slowdowns.  It
> determines when other processes are trying to use the CPU and "throttles
> down" accordingly, then cranks back up to full speed when the system isn't
> busy.  I would only recommend running it on a sub-166MhZ machine when that
> system is otherwise idle, however.
> 
>    You can download clients for pretty much every platform known to humanity
> here:
> http://www.distributed.net/clients.html
> 
>       The Linux Users of Minnesota team ID is 6533.
> 
> --
> Eric Hillman - UNIX Sysadmin
> City & County Credit Union
> ehillman@cccu.com
> The opinions expressed in this message are my own.  You can't have them.
> 
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E-Mail: Gabe Turner <dopp@acm.cs.umn.edu>
Date: 15-Dec-98
Time: 09:22:54

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