ECC2-109 - Message for the Recruitment/Welcome thread

[nagger]

I've layed out this message so we can update the Recruitment and Welcome Threads with info regarding this new DC project.

ECC2-109
This is a distributed computing project to solve the Certicom ECC2-109 challenge.
In general it can be described as a whole lot of computers from all over the world, all of them working together in n attempt to have a collision. Each of the computers runs a program that computes DP (Distinguished Points) values. Each time a computer finds a DP, it is uploaded to a main server. The main server then checks to see if anyone has uploaded a matching DP (this is known as a collision). If a collision happens (two matching DP values exist), then the Certicom challenge is solved!
The Certicom ECC2-109 challenge has a prize of $10,000 for successful completion of the challenge. If the eCompute ECC2-109 project is successful in completing this challenge, we plan to distribute the prize in the following proportions.
- 50% split evenly for the two submitters of the matching DP values
- 50% split among the eCompute ECC2-109 project developers

Software Download Page
ECC2-109 Project FAQ?s
ECC2-109 Forums

NEW!: Team AnandTech Stats
NEW!: Manual DP Uploader

Current Status: Team AnandTech is currently in 7th place so we need more power to catch TechIMO

Sugestions r welcome before I can deliver this to Crazee & Smokeball

 

[Shack70]

I'm on and off with this one, I cant decide if i want to stay with it or do the new DNet one. They are both nice, but DNet messed up so bad on the 64 one........


For ppl looking for an easy DC project to run, this one is great easy to set up and easy to run

 

[ken008]

Is this project still beta ?

 

[nagger]

ken,

Last time I checked it was still in beta.

 

[Crazee]

It is not in Beta. As soon as DPs were submitted it went out of beta. According to Jay Berg everything counts. Teams might have to be reformed when the stats are all the way live, but everything counts. So any DPs you have done are valid and will stay with you when you join the TeAm.

 

[nagger]

Bump for new info

 

[jkersenbr]

Bump for a fun new project.

I doubt I will be at the top of the TeAm for much longer


(but I'm getting a screenshot while I am )

 

[nagger]

bump to get back to page 1

 

[KifArU]

How can I join TA in this project? Do I have to wait for an e-mail?
If I choose to send my password to me, my e-mail address is not known. But I already did 80 DP's on 2 different machines, which are visible in the client.

 

[nagger]

They send out an email so you can activate your account.

After that you have to login into the stats server so you can select your Team.

 

[KifArU]

How long should I wait for the e-mail? My first results were 2 days ago.

 

[nagger]

They must have some problem right now.

When I first submitted DP's it took 4 days to get the email.

 

[adeno]

TA mini-team Irc.Deception.Net now active in ECC2

What sucks however, is that they update every six hours for the stats