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Optimal Golomb Rulers!

OGR-24 Suspended

On Tuesday, February 15, 2000 at 06:00 UTC distributed.net began its next distributed computing project. Be sure to download and install the latest clients if you do not have them already. Visit the Optimal Golomb Rulers project page for more details about this exciting new project!

112.90 gigakeys per second

That's our RC5-64 rate. Take a look at what that means in real-world terms, and then look into joining us yourself. Every CPU can be put to use.

CSC Completed

On 16 January 2000, shortly before 0630 UTC, we found the winning key in the CS-Cipher encryption contest. Our preliminary announcement is online. The CSC Project page a good place to find information about the contest.

the organization

Founded in 1997, our project has grown to encompass thousands of users around the world. Most of us just run the clients, but on our credits page you can find the people administering the network and building the programs.

distributed.net's computing power has grown to become equivalent to that of more than 160000 PII 266Mhz computers working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year! Our infrastructure has been enhanced over the years and refined to a point where it can reliably handle tens of thousands of new computers. Join us in this ground-breaking computing experience. We need your help...

we need your help!

It's very simple to participate in our challenges. You only need to download a small program, which will talk to our network and begin to process parts of the current challenges. The program uses only the computer's idle time, so when you want to use your computer, the client will automatically get out of your way. Plus, there's that cute little cow icon...

There's more information on setting up the client.

Other neat things

Here are a few other neat places to visit:

• Beautify your workspace with a desktop picture of our logo.
• Do you have a webpage? You can help advertise distributed.net by putting a banner on your pages!
• We'd like to extend our congratulations to ECDL for solving Certicom's ECC2-97 challenge.
• Have some ideas for our next generation of clients? Submit them here.

further information

If you want to learn more about our project, first stop by our Press Room to read the announcements of our past victories; then browse the following.

• Read our How To Help.
• Check out our documentation section.
• We have some Mailing lists you can join.
• For our international members, you can contact your Regional Representative who will answer your questions in your native language.
• There are always people online on our IRC channel #distributed on the EFnet.