Author: Quenton Fyfe
Date: 01:57:01 11/19/98
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This does sound interesting - hope you get a chance to take a look at it Dann. It might help to improve the project in a couple of key areas, where we are currently weak compared to "Distributed Net" etc - mainly in the process of getting data out to participants, and back to you: 1) It can be a bit of a pain if you have a few machines - copying files to/from multiple machines for processing, copying results back etc. No big deal - just another little job - whereas GIMPS / Distributed Net are transparent to the user. More ease-of participation should help to build numbers of participants. 2) We're currently not using all the computing power available from those who are participating: For example, in my case - I run stuff overnight on 3 machines - but could run it 24 hours at low priority, and get more done. The current architecture doesn't facilitate this though - because results aren't flushed when Crafty shuts down, so if I reboot during the day, work is lost. Just some thoughts for improvements.... Regards Quenton Fyfe
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