Today's distributed.net CPU/OS distribution stats reveal that MorphOS based computers crunched more nodes than OpenBSD on x86. The next platform to reach is NetBSD on AMD-64 .

Wow, is that thing still going on...?

@krashan

That's good news! Not sure if it actually promotes MorphOS very much but it's fun to overtake other OS's.
Btw do you know what balage at amiga.hu is crunching with? Seems to be submitting a lot of gnodes for the Pegasos team.

@takemehomegrandma

OGR-27 could last about 7 years according to a rough guess on distributed.net

Btw do you know what balage at amiga.hu is crunching with?

I have no idea but I guess that he is an administrator at some university or other institution and installed clients on all computers there...

@krashan

Ah yes, that would make sense.

> is that thing still going on...?

Huh? OGR-27 started 273 days ago (February 2009) and is at about 6% currently. That means there are still 4250 days (11.6 years) to go based on the actual mean rate, or 2894 days (7.9 years) based on yesterday's rate. As computing will get faster, the OGR-27 project will be finished way before, though. Based on the growth rate during the first 273 days I'd estimate an end in 3.3 years from now.

> it's fun to overtake other OS's.

Actually, OpenBSD as a whole (x86 + AMD-64) is still way ahead of MorphOS ;-)

> I guess that he is an administrator at some university or other institution and
> installed clients on all computers there...

So he isn't crunching for MorphOS then?

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Well MorphOS is still higher up on the leader board, so OpenBSD shouldn't have split its effort like that

> OpenBSD shouldn't have split its effort like that :lol: :-P

So let's hope MorphOS won't split its effort to x86 or ARM then ;-)

>> is that thing still going on...?

> Huh?

Well I obviously meant "that boring number crunching stuff" in general...

> I obviously meant "that boring number crunching stuff" in general...

You didn't really believe it could have had ended, did you? ;-)

(Btw, I don't think that was obvious. Ruud misunderstood you also.)

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Oh no that would be terrible!

@Andreas_Wolf

So he isn't crunching for MorphOS then?

No, he isn't (unless he has a big farm of MorphOS machines). In OS/hardware classification, the system and hardware reported by the client is taken into account. You can "cheat" for example running Amiga 68k client on MorphOS, or by running Windows client under Wine, but that's another story.

On the other hand in team competition, OS/hardware used does not matter.

> No, he isn't (unless he has a big farm of MorphOS machines).

Thx for confirmation.

> In OS/hardware classification, the system and hardware reported
> by the client is taken into account. [...] On the other hand in team
> competition, OS/hardware used does not matter.

I know all this of course, hence my "question" (which was a concealed observation really) :-)

NetBSD/AMD-64 has now also been overtaken

Cool. The next, relatively easy step will be to reach OS/2 on x86. Then things will be harder... Only increased number of contest participants may help.

BTW, new dnetc client is available.

What's the goal of these crunching? Is for any project in special?

> What's the goal of these crunching? Is for any project in special?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golomb_ruler

And the applications for it?. I mean, crypto, security, etc... or is just for the sake of it?

> And the applications for it?

From the Wikipedia link I gave you:

"One practical use of Golomb rulers is in the design of phased array radio antennas such as radio telescopes. Antennas in a [0,1,4,6] Golomb ruler configuration can often be seen at cell sites."

Addendum:

> OGR-27 started 273 days ago (February 2009) and is at about 6% currently. [...] Based
> on the growth rate during the first 273 days I'd estimate an end in 3.3 years from now.

Seems I was too optimistic. My estimation was for 3 months ago but it's still running and at 85% right now.

http://stats.distributed.net/projects.php?project_id=27

BTW, we have a new team, named Team MorphOS (with some MorphOS Team members participating, as well as a bunch of users). We are making fast progress and have quite nice daily throughput (see daily updated graph). Everyone is invited (of course not only MorphOS machines may be used).

> we have a new team, named Team MorphOS [...]. We are making fast progress
> and have quite nice daily throughput (see daily updated graph).

Congratulations on rank #56. You missed overtaking the Distributed Pegasos Team by an eyelash :-)