Just out of curiosity, how many people who use the Anandtech forums are working on distributed computing projects? 20% 30%? Or is nearly everyone here working on em?
How many people are cracking?
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It occured to me that the answers to such a question would likely be biased, simply because those who are not cracking will apathetically look on without replying, so those of you who are reading this and are not cracking, do so! And maybe make a reply stating that you intend to start soon 
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.Why not trmiv? You dont have the time? There doesn't seem to me to be any reason not to, no disadvantages. Just my opinion,
Pretty simple really, I don't want to, plus I don't like extra things running on my computer. I used to for a quick bit, but after I did a reformat/reinstall of my OS's I just didn't see the point, so I didn't bother to download it again.
Diffusion...What are the advantages? Besides just have it run your processor at 100% 100% of the time.
What are the disadvantages? An additional program running in the background. What are the advantages? With RC5 you have a small chance of winning 1000$, you demonstrate the effectiveness of distributed computing. You assist in helping charity by shortening the length of time to crack it. On top of all that, its just plain fun, are you involved in any organized sports or watch any? You root for your own team in these projects, you track your stats, you "race" other people to certain goals, there are a number of attractive things about it.
dennilfloss
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That in itself is an advantage. Saves much thermal stress on your cpu due to thermal cycling and keeps your cpu core and case temperature more constant. Plus rc5, along with other distributed computing projects, is a good test of system stability. Burns in your cpu and proves that it can run stably at the desired speed, or not. It also makes good uses of otherwise wasted cpu cycles since, to quote someone whose name I cannot remember (with apologies) "Windows 9X notes when the CPU is idle and instructs it to process looping 'garbage' instructions" anyway. Monitoring your keyrate also allows you to identify underlying processes that might be using cpu cycles and other resources (e.g. viruses, worms & trojans) with a high priority and therefore substantially hindering your computing performance (unlike, for example, rc5 which, at idle priority, almost never interferes with your applications). RC5 has even been used to locate deficient cables in networking environment since the expected performance can be monitored.
If you ever want to give it a try, just PM me and I can have you cracking in less than 2 minutes. If you don't like it later, you only need to delete the rc5 folder to uninstall the client.
Maybe I'm Amazed (Paul McCartney)
That in itself is an advantage. Saves much thermal stress on your cpu due to thermal cycling and keeps your cpu core and case temperature more constant. Plus rc5, along with other distributed computing projects, is a good test of system stability. Burns in your cpu and proves that it can run stably at the desired speed, or not. It also makes good uses of otherwise wasted cpu cycles since, to quote someone whose name I cannot remember (with apologies) "Windows 9X notes when the CPU is idle and instructs it to process looping 'garbage' instructions" anyway. Monitoring your keyrate also allows you to identify underlying processes that might be using cpu cycles and other resources (e.g. viruses, worms & trojans) with a high priority and therefore substantially hindering your computing performance (unlike, for example, rc5 which, at idle priority, almost never interferes with your applications). RC5 has even been used to locate deficient cables in networking environment since the expected performance can be monitored.
If you ever want to give it a try, just PM me and I can have you cracking in less than 2 minutes. If you don't like it later, you only need to delete the rc5 folder to uninstall the client.
Maybe I'm Amazed (Paul McCartney)
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I'm doing RC5, OGR and SETI for Team Anandtech. What a fun bunch of people Help help, I've started participating and I can't stop!
This is mechBgon's Duron system speaking... don't have much time. Would someone please come and arrest this man? It's bad enough he makes me run this blasted SETI 24/7... at least I'm the Win98 box and get rebooted once in a while. My companion, the dual-Celeron Win2k system, has been forced to do SETI and OGR both at the same time and has not been rebooted in over 4 weeks! :Q We're being abused, please someone... stop the madness! DOH... here he comes back with his coffee now... please... help!
Help help, I've started participating and I can't stop! This is mechBgon's Duron system speaking... don't have much time. Would someone please come and arrest this man? It's bad enough he makes me run this blasted SETI 24/7... at least I'm the Win98 box and get rebooted once in a while. My companion, the dual-Celeron Win2k system, has been forced to do SETI and OGR both at the same time and has not been rebooted in over 4 weeks! :Q We're being abused, please someone... stop the madness! DOH... here he comes back with his coffee now... please... help!
You see? There are plenty of reasons for working on distributed computing projects, and RC5 in particular, if you are unable to figure it out, www.TACube.com, otherwise, its preferable to run under your own email addy.
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