[BLAM!] (Another one bites the dust!) ;-)

[takemehomegrandma]

And so it happened again! The PowerPC/MorphOS platform lay down one more platform in the RC5-72 space race. This time it was the Alpha/DEC OSF/1 platform that hit the ground. :-)

And it went down with a loud *BLAM*, because at the same time the PowerPC/MorphOS platform sets another personal best when it comes to the number of blocks crunched in a single day:

 * 3,836 * blocks!  :-o  :-D

http://www.morphos-news.de/guides/rc5-72/dnet-mos-stats.php

The MorphOS now puts itself at the #14 position from the top, and we are actually closing in on the "mainstream" platforms. The curve now gets steeper and the opponents gets tougher, but it's still not at all impossible (at least not the closest two opponents, which we probably will beat before the summer is over, perhaps even with some margins).

However, this will require more effort from all of us (if running the client in the background and letting your computer be switched on when you leave it can be considered an *effort*(?)). While some new team members has been added to the dnet-mos-stats page above, I have also noticed that some of you who helped crunching keys in the beginning now has stopped for some reason. Come back, we need you! :-)

If everyone listed on the dnet-mos-stats page above starts crunching keys again, at least for a little while every day, then it's my belief that we easily can go up to about some 4,500 keys per day without any greater effort (every group of only ten users with G4 will bring in more than 700 blocks every 24h of non-stop crunching (72-96 per user/day)). And if only *a few* additional of you MorphOS users who is reading this, but has not yet joined the effort, pull yourselves together and really joins, then we would reach over 5,000 daily blocks *very easily* (could be a lot more). And then, when MorphOS1.5 is released (at some undefined future date), this figure could very well double over night thanks to the Altivec support in the client (with Altivec, the crunching is almost three times as fast on the same CPU, but not everyone has G4's)!

So this is a "call to arms"! Come and join us! :-)

Look here below:

takemehomegrandma wrote:

New users can find some very easy step-by-step instructions here:
http://www.morphos-news.de/guides/rc5-72/index.html

... and when you have got it up and running (and waited some 24 hours or so to get your first stats registered on the server) you could post a link to your stats on this page:
http://www.morphzone.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=1491&forum=9&180

So come on people, let's get back to work! Let's save all those poor left-over clock cycles that otherwise would have died without accomplishing anything in their short lives! Let's give them some meaningful existence instead! :-)  :-D

[jeffimix]

Good job! Give 'em heck!

Send me a pegasos mobo, and I swear I'll leave it running RC5 all you want, too ;

[takemehomegrandma]

People, have a look at this:

B-plan has joined the effort: http://stats.distributed.net/participant/psummary.php?project_id=8&id=437432

... and do you know what? Their stats on that page is not from 10 computers, not from 5 computers, not from 2 computers, but from ONE SINGLE COMPUTER! It looks like a new CPU card is in the works! :-D

If you look at the short history of their RC5 crunching career, you will see that it has peaked at 711 blocks in a 24h period(!), which is TEN TIMES as fast as my 1GHz G4 without Altivec, and THREE TIMES as fast as current Pegasos G4's **with Altivec enabled**!  :-o  :-o  :-D

As I said earlier, today the Pegasos/MorphOS platform set a *new personal record* in the amount of blocks crunched, and if you compare these 3,836 blocks that the MorphOS joint effort has produced, you will notice that the 711 blocks FROM THIS SINGLE MACHINE equals to about 18.5% of that total record!  :-o  :-)  :-D

If only 6 machines with this CPU card would have been running non-stop yesterday, the amount of blocks produced would have exceeded that day's TOTAL AMOUNT of ALL OTHER PLATFORMS (34) below the Pegasos/MorphOS current position! :-o

If all 93 registered Pegasos crunchers on the MorphOS dnet stats page (http://www.morphos-news.de/guides/rc5-72/dnet-mos-stats.php) would have had one of these babies each, and had them running non stop for 24h, it would sum up in 66,123 blocks (:-o), which would put the Pegasos at #5 of ALL PLATFORMS when it comes to daily blocks submitted, overtaking (by far) platforms like Sparc/Solaris, PowerPC/Linux, X86/OpenBSD, X86/NetBSD, etc! :-o  :-D

Do you get the picture? :-D

BTW, for reference: http://www.morphzone.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=2354&forum=9