Distributed.net OGR is back up

[Randy Rathbun]

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It is $1000 for the team, $1000 for the individual, unless the individual
is not on a team, then they get $2000. 

I have 10 machines doing crunching (hence my high score on Team Kansas
City Linux Users Group (team number 17572). 

I hope more people will join up. It is easy to do. It takes no effort on
your part other than installing the client and starting it running. 

One thing I have noticed about the OGR - the block you get determines what
your crunching is going to be. If you get a block that has little to no
OGR blocks, you get a really high crunch stat. If you are like me and you
get blocks with lots of nodes, you end up with a really crappy
score. RC5-64 is a lot better judge of what is going on. 

So, throw those machines at this stuff, folks! The more that are
crunching, the sooner you will not have to put up with my "join the dnet
team!" messages.  :)

Randy

On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Ben Webb wrote:
> >Sure there's a prize, just not a big one.  I also think that there's less
> CPU time involved than the other one so your chances of participating while
> the optimal ruler is found is probably better than the estimated 5-8 year
> timespan of the RC5-64 project.  So far the prize is about $150.
> -Caveat: I haven't done distributed.net for a while, so this may be old info.
> Not sure about the CPU time, but the prize for the rc5 project actually comes from RSA.  They 
sponser encryption breaking contests rather often, and the Distributed.net is just one entry 
(that's one entry for the whole of distributed.net, not each team/user).  I don't know about the 
rc5-64 contest, but in the DES contestes it used to boil down to distributed.net vs EFF's Deep 
Crack.  In any case, the prize is (or was) 10,000.  It used to work that distributed.net got a big 
chunk (I think $7500) the team got $1500 and the individual got $1000. 
> mike neuliep wrote:
> > 
> > Yes but the rc5-64 contest pays out cashola if you're the lucky winner!
> > The ogr-24 one doesn't pay out.  OGR does sound like an interesting project
> > though...
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