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viztech · October 27th, 2002, 12:16 PM

[latest info]
Official ECC2-109 Home Page thanks to Phynix for the link.

Official project forums at ECC2.com
Win32 and *nix client page here!
These clients need MMX equiped CPUs such as Intel Pentium MMX, P2, P3, P4 and Celeron. AMD K6, Athlon and Duron. Client uses less than 4 MB of RAM.

Stats site at ECC2.com (in Beta)
Thread on *nix client use
'Best Practices' thread
Want to run ECC2 with other projects? There was some discussion on this in our Shameless Recruiting thread along with other good info.

Benchmarks of the Win32 client based on data gathered at the ECC2 and TechIMO forums.

Athlon .5114 ips/mhz
P2/P3/Celeron .4540 ips/mhz
P4 .2145 ips/mhz

[/latest info].

As some of you know, Jay Berg wrote the P4 optimized client for ECCp-109 and finished 128th in that project on the eCompute.org team. Phynix was also a member of this team and is a forum member here at TIMO.

As far as the scope and size of this new project, it looks like it will take approx. 4.3 times the computer power as ECCp109. This is from the information posted at Certicom for the ECCp and ECC2 challenge pages.

ECCp109 was started 4-14-2001 and took 18 months to solve. If you look at
the overall stats for the project, you will see that it started slowly but in the end production was doubling every 4 months or so.

If you combine the facts that processor speeds double every 18 months, and that there will be a higher initial interest in ECC2-109 right out of the blocks, one would assume that that ECC2-109 could be solved in about the same amount of time as it took us to finish ECCp-109.

Many of us that ran ECCp-109 liked the fact that the client rarely conflicted with other processes that might be running, could be hidden (with the enhanced and SMP clients) and were easily adaptable to run as system services and sneakernets. Chris even set up a port to dump directly to the server on port 80 making it firewall friendly. Hopefully all of these items can be addressed in the ECC2-109 clients, plus I would love to see dial-up detection for Win32 systems.

I would like anyone with new information, links, etc. about ECC2-109 to post in this this thread!

Thanks!

viz

October 27th, 2002, 12:16 PM	#1 (permalink)
viztech Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Iowa Posts: 720	[ECC2-109] Info Thread [latest info] Official ECC2-109 Home Page thanks to Phynix for the link. Official project forums at ECC2.com Win32 and nix client page here! These clients need MMX equiped CPUs such as Intel Pentium MMX, P2, P3, P4 and Celeron. AMD K6, Athlon and Duron. Client uses less than 4 MB of RAM. Stats site at ECC2.com (in Beta) Thread on nix client use 'Best Practices' thread Want to run ECC2 with other projects? There was some discussion on this in our Shameless Recruiting thread along with other good info. Benchmarks of the Win32 client based on data gathered at the ECC2 and TechIMO forums. Athlon .5114 ips/mhz P2/P3/Celeron .4540 ips/mhz P4 .2145 ips/mhz [/latest info]. As some of you know, Jay Berg wrote the P4 optimized client for ECCp-109 and finished 128th in that project on the eCompute.org team. Phynix was also a member of this team and is a forum member here at TIMO. As far as the scope and size of this new project, it looks like it will take approx. 4.3 times the computer power as ECCp109. This is from the information posted at Certicom for the ECCp and ECC2 challenge pages. ECCp109 was started 4-14-2001 and took 18 months to solve. If you look at the overall stats for the project, you will see that it started slowly but in the end production was doubling every 4 months or so. If you combine the facts that processor speeds double every 18 months, and that there will be a higher initial interest in ECC2-109 right out of the blocks, one would assume that that ECC2-109 could be solved in about the same amount of time as it took us to finish ECCp-109. Many of us that ran ECCp-109 liked the fact that the client rarely conflicted with other processes that might be running, could be hidden (with the enhanced and SMP clients) and were easily adaptable to run as system services and sneakernets. Chris even set up a port to dump directly to the server on port 80 making it firewall friendly. Hopefully all of these items can be addressed in the ECC2-109 clients, plus I would love to see dial-up detection for Win32 systems. I would like anyone with new information, links, etc. about ECC2-109 to post in this this thread! Thanks! viz __________________ Free DMcOwen674! [l]http://www.tacube.com/pages/mcowen.html[/l] Last edited by viztech : December 14th, 2002 at 09:31 PM.