My RC5 herd

[Goi]

Thought I'd post a pic of my RC5 herd in action...

RC5 Herd

Take a look at my taskbar...ignore the 2 mIRC clients, Eudora Pro and IE and that's 20 shells to 20 UltraSPARCs, each cracking at an average of 800KKeys/s 🙂

All towards TA of course...

Edit: That's excluding my C875.5 and C488, cracking about 2.3Mkeys/s and 1.3Mkeys/s average

 

[SSP]

Cool! 😀

Those 800K Keys/s add up. 😀 I see you're already hooked on stats. 😉

 

[Goi]

Haha...its addicting! I can't help myself!

btw, that's what I call "distributed computing" 🙂

 

[dvch]

I LIKE IT!😀

Nice herd Goi.🙂

 

[DanC]

Nice! -
but... there's the little matter of that netscape icon in the lower right....

 

[Goi]

Netscape's my main browser, IE's my secondary browser. I'm one of those Netscape people... 🙂

 

[dawks]

.... poor guy 🙁

 

[Possessed Freak]

hey Goi, I also have telnet access to a bunch?few? boxes, how did you get the client installed and running?

 

[Goi]

Go to the distributed.net client download page and grab their Solaris/SunOS client for UltraSparcs([2.x/Ultra]). That one worked for me, but yours might be 1 of the other 2 depending on the kind of Sun station you have. Download those to your Sun boxes, and install them by typing this at the prompt.

gunzip -c x.tar.gz |tar xf -

where x.tar.gz is the filename of the client you just downloaded. It will extract the executable, which is named dnetc, as well as other files. Run the client by entering "dnetc" which you bring you to the config window. I assume you have experience with this. After saving and exiting, run "dnetc" again to run the client, or "dnetc -benchmark" to benchmark first.

You can run multiple telnet sessions using the same executable, but I wouldn't recommend running more than 10 instances of the same executable in the same directory, as sometimes you get Bus errors when 2 clients try to access the buff-in or buff-out at the same time.

For more information, try the distributed.net client tutorial page.