Question about RC5

[Uuplaku]

Im running my dual athlon system dedicated to doing RC5 calculations. Now, it says that Im calculating an average of about 8 Mkeys/s. Yet, when I look on the stats page for distributed.net (stats.distributed.net) I find that the highest person overall is only generating about 4 million keys a second! Now, can it really be that some distributing n00b can really be generating TWICE the amount of keys as the next best person in such a huge contest? I'd really like some insight here.

 

[ViRGE]

Where exactly on the statsbox are you looking at? I'm not seeing anything like what you're talking about.

 

[mechBgon]

Hi Uuplaku, I was looking at the Overall RC5-64 stats list. It looks like the top producer is rc5@resnet.depaul.edu with an average rate of 887Mk/sec... individual stats page for them.

Still, you have one of the fastest computers available for RC5. The Athlon/Duron families are very good at it.

 

[Uuplaku]

Well, Im looking in the bracketed area on the RC5 client. The reason Im not on any of the stats pages is because I've never completed a dump before. I've only had this thing on for a few hours, so my rate has never been recorded via dumping.

Regarding that RC5@resnet guy, it says that his current rate is approximately 1,244,387.86

Now, I dont know exactly what that means. Is that measured in millions of keys per second, or in keys per second?

 

[mechBgon]

That 1,244,388 figure is in kilokeys per second. Divide by 1000 for his Megakeys per second. Looks like his/their rate for the day was 1244Mk/sec. I believe this account represents Depaul University, which explains where they get that kind of output. As JonB told me when I was a n00b, there's strength in numbers.

What is your system like, anyway, are you using a TigerMP or one of the 760MPX motherboards?

 

[Uuplaku]

Ah, much knowledge has been revealed unto me.

And regarding the mobo question, a TigerMP.