RSA Lattice Siever (2.0) News

[AMDave]

RSALS moving to NFS@Home and shutting down...
After nearly three years of work, at first for factoring the 512-bit RSA keys used for validation in TI-Z80 and TI-68k graphing calculators, but soon repurposed for factoring integers of mathematical interest, RSALS is currently being moved to the larger NFS@Home grid, before being shut down in the next few weeks, after the current numbers (and perhaps a couple easy ones, to pick up the slack ?).Clients connected to RSALS have participated in the factoring of about 400 fairly large composite integers, helping a number of projects interested in those factorizations. Thanks so much for your trillions of CPU cycles over those three years :-)RSALS was the first BOINC grid using the Number Field Sieve algorithm, the most efficient known algorithm for large integers. The NFS@Home grid was created shortly after RSALS by Greg Childers, a.k.a "frmky", Associate Professor of Physics at California State Fullerton University, well-known in the integer factoring community and aiming at factorizations larger than RSALS could reach through the sole "14e" siever program it used, by using the larger "15e", "16e" and other sievers.For almost three years, RSALS and NFS@Home were used in a complementary way; but the time has come to make these a single, more powerful grid with a single set of programs, rather than spending time installing RSALS to a newer server (the current one being expensive and under-powered) and importing NFS@Home's sievers into RSALS.Thanks again to our BOINC clients, our post-processers, and the integer factoring community. We hope to see you on NFS@Home soon :-)NOTE: if you really don't want the NFS@Home WUs to use more RAM than the current RSALS WUs do, you'll have to make sure, in the preferences of your account on NFS@Home ( http://escatter11.fullerton.edu/nfs/...subset=project ), that "lasieved" is the only enabled siever.For a more detailed version of this post, see the MersenneForum announcement.Lionel Debroux & squalyl for RSALS.

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[AMDave]

FIRE SALE ... last chance to get them while they are hot. The fire engine is on the way.
Sign up. Sign on. Sign in. Tell the others.

Enligt tillkännagivandet den RSA Lattice Siever, kommer de att avstängning efter ca 2 eller 3 veckor.
Vaughan och jag har inlett en attack för att få våra milstolpar upp och flytta laget upp några led.

[NeoGen]

I am on it! I'm getting myself as many WUs as I can before the shutdown.

Come on guys, we are currently 16th and there's 3 easy spots our Team can go up before the shutdown, and if we really push it maybe we can even aim for the top 10?

[Dirk Broer]

I am on it! I'm getting myself as many WUs as I can before the shutdown.

I'm on it too! At the present rate we will gain two places in the next two days...

[AMDave]

Welcome to the FIRE SALE rally Dirk! I PM'd liuqyn, sentient_life and lazykiller in case they are not watching.
Any more takers? Jump in or miss out! Tell others. Sign up, sign on, sign in and kick off!
We are moving along well. 2 team ranks very close now. 2 more to follow closely after that if we get time.

[Dirk Broer]

Milestones Yesterday:
AMD Users passed 900,000
vaughan passed 350,000
AMDave passed 20,000

Milestones Today:
AMD Users passes 950,000
AMD Users passes 1,000,000
NeoGen passes 3,000
vaughan passes 400,000
AMDave passes 30,000
Dirk Broer passes 1,000

And I know from a reliable source that Dirk Broer has passed 2,000 as well...

[AMDave]

Sudden drop off of RSALS work units - I have posted in their forum here: http://boinc.unsads.com/rsals/forum_....php?id=44#181

[AMDave]

RSALS Work Queue - Resolved:
I see now that the project has a 'saw-tooth' process in place.
However, I note that the NET disk usage is rising so this will occur again soon.

[NeoGen]

I am getting work again! Let's go guys!!

[Dirk Broer]

We've passed Dansha, next goal will be reached tomorrow: Team Starfire World BOINC