If you poke around the RC5 page, there is (or was) a page with links to other distributed computing projects, includeing some that looked to me quite nifty: finding abelian (whatever they are if I spelled it right) groups (which I suppose are of interest to number theorists), other mathy things, and SETA at home, which struck me as something of a pulicity stunt but cool nonetheless, where you sign your computer up and it gets fed data from a listening station which you machine then performs Fourier transform on and looks for all kinds of complicated signals with internal phase drift and everything, which I guess makes it enough of a computing job that the network can keep up (but they must have a pretty flashy central server).
__ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always." Britton Kerin On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Kiyan Azarbar wrote: > The following is a part of a message on the Ottawa-Carleton LUG list: > > Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 12:01:14 -0400 (EDT) > To: Ottawa Carlton Linux Users Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [oclug] Distributed Computing effort(s) > > ... > > I'd like to get involved in some kind of distributed computing effort to > chew up the idle cycles of my CPU... I'm looked at distributed.net and > gone over the list, but there were some not listed there I heard spoken > about on the list awhile ago. > > I'm not interested in spinning my system's wheels (so to speak) on the RCS > now. I was involved for the previous attack on it, and would like to move > on to something else... > > The one that most interests me right now I beleive was (I think it was our > good Doctor even who mentioned it, although I could be wrong) aiding with > stellar traces (or something to do with the stars anyway)... I did not see > this one on distributed.net (they seem to only have the various encrytion > attacks right now) > > ... (author name withheld) > > ______________________ > > I was wondering if anyone on this list had heard of such a thing. If > so, please contact me. I will of course pass on the information to the > original poster. I'm crossposting to this list because I am very > curious, and I figure a wider readership may be able to help more. > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing > A. Kiyan Azarbar its opponents and making them see the light, but > Ottawa, Canada rather because its opponents eventually die and a > Linux 2.0.32 new generation grows up that is familiar with it. > 1024/0x9A9EC5EA 4F3ADBDA1EE5850209DD8BB205250ED2F696A7BE ^- Max Planck > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]