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    New project mersenneathome.net

    CAUTION: 5MB upload per core per 20mins

    There is a new project on the web:
    http://mersenneathome.net/

    It has been put up by Sebastian (b0b3r) Bobrecki
    http://mersenneathome.net/show_user.php?userid=1

    As far as I can tell he has a background in Hash decryption and Rainbow Tables

    Dingo has asked in the forum for him to post the group or organisation that it is running for.

    The client apps are for LINUX ONLY at the moment

    The wu's come down with an estimate of 90 minutes
    They complete in about 18 to 20 minutes.
    Points are good
    BUT every WU is uploading over 5MB back to the server

    That is just HUGE and totally unnecessary.

    It just raises other questions.

    It just took me an hour to un-bind my network which was overloaded with 135 MB of uploads and his I/O rate is not great.

    Be cautious if you hook up to this one.
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    I don't run Linux yet, but thanks for the heads up AMDave those figures for upload are just ridiculous. I will stay away even if I do get a Linux box anytime soon!





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    I've joined but don't have too many Linux boxes at the moment. On the project's forum they say a Windows application is on the "to do" list. Also the current tasks are testing previously known / tested numbers.


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    Bok has it in the Free-DC stats already.
    Bobcat13 is kicking it ;)
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    Psst its Windows Time





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    heads up, NOT download friendly. around 3.5Mb per wu.


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    Yeah. That was a nasty surprise last month when we kicked off.
    I posted about it but they said that is the way it is.
    It is not going to change.
    So I have gone into trickle mode -> manually let in 3 wu's before I go to bed and they 'should' upload during my off-peak hours.

    /ed - hmm. I could use my VMs to my advantage here. Got a couple of milestones to hit first though -ed/
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    is it just the new app that reduced to file size, or is the linux one still in the 5Mb range?


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    For the linux client it is 3.5MB d/l + 3.5MB u/l per wu (ie per core) per 15mins
    On a 6 core machine 7MB per core per 15mins
    so 168MB per hour
    or 4 GB per day
    and about 120GB per month
    and that's just for 1 machine which would hit my max d/l limit in 8 days
    its. um. unfortunate.
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    I completed my 10K, and that is it for this monstrosity, That is a lot of uploads and downloads, and if you have limits and I don't at this time, BEWARE!





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