Life after OGR-25?

OGR-25 is gonna run out somewhere in September according to predictions. Someone put any thought what to do thereafter? RC5-72?

Reason I am asking is to get Elitehackers.info prepared for the change.. Any ideas?

The_Grog wijzigde dit bericht 07-07-2008 02:38 (25%)

I'm switching to RC5

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The_Grog schreef op maandag 07 juli 2008 @ 02:35:
OGR-25 is gonna run out somewhere in September according to predictions. Someone put any thought what to do thereafter? RC5-72?

Reason I am asking is to get Elitehackers.info prepared for the change.. Any ideas?

Well if you have configured you clients with as fallback RC5, you will have some "spare" time to switch to something completely else.

For my self I will first be running RC5, and probably keep some machines for ever on this, as I don't touch some machines very often.

Perhaps Distributed.net will come with a new project, at least I guess they are busy with this, so this might be interesting. Otherwise I guess I will be switching to Boinc, but I don't know which project jet.

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Robinski schreef op maandag 07 juli 2008 @ 09:06:
Perhaps Distributed.net will come with a new project, at least I guess they are busy with this, so this might be interesting.

Perhaps they'll launch OGR-26 although looking at the amount of work for 24 and 25 that will take a too long time to complete for 26 to be directly attractive for me. Perhaps such a quick DES or CSC challenge again (yes an oldtimer here for the record) - biggest problem would be the need of updating the clients in a relative short period.

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Qwerty-273 schreef op maandag 07 juli 2008 @ 10:19:
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Perhaps they'll launch OGR-26 although looking at the amount of work for 24 and 25 that will take a too long time to complete for 26 to be directly attractive for me. Perhaps such a quick DES or CSC challenge again (yes an oldtimer here for the record) - biggest problem would be the need of updating the clients in a relative short period.

You might be able to test it out just now

New prerelease client:
New client with 1 to 3% speed increase on OGR (CPU dependent)

http://www.distributed.net/download/prerelease.php
code:

2.9015-505  fix: cellbe: Memory corruption in OGR core (#4036)
            imp: x86: CPU Identification
            imp: macosx: Add support for Intel temperature sensors

2.9015-504  imp: cellbe: Tidy up cores for public source release
            fix: x86: broken -stress on intel macosx (#4021)

2.9015-503  imp: cellbe: Slightly faster SPE OGR core
            fix: linux: Working fix for the race condition alluded to in the
                        changelog for v2.9015-502
            imp: x86: Faster OGR MMX cores (1-3%, depending on CPU)
            chg: x86: OGR core selection for P4 (updated cores)

2.9015-502  new: cellbe: Added SPE OGR cores
            fix: linux: Fix race condition in heavily multithreaded
                        scenarios causing the first cruncher to randomly
                        stop running until client is restarted.
            chg: x86: SGP-3 is default RC5-72 core for older P4's (#4009)
            imp: x86: A little faster and stable speed of DG-3 and SGP-3 cores.

2.9014-501  new: cellbe: New platform, PlayStation 3/Cell BE