[ECC2-109] Info Thread - Tech Support Forums

viztech · October 27th, 2002, 11:16 AM

[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

Creatures · October 27th, 2002, 11:22 AM

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ECCp109 was started 4-14-2001 and took 18 months to solve.

didn't notice that it took so long

thanks for the info viztech!

Creatures

Thud · October 27th, 2002, 11:36 AM

I emailed JBerg a couple days ago, and he says they're working hard to get this thing up and running. He says the first client should be available in early Nov, in CLI. GUI and enhancments will follow eventually.

He's currently running another project, and says the client and stats will have the same basic look and feel as his current ECM project. You can check it out here: http://www.ecompute.org/factors/

I haven't been able to take a good look at it yet, as I've been strapped for time. It all looks pretty promising thus far.

And thanks for the additional info, Viz!

viztech · October 27th, 2002, 11:43 AM

Yes Creatures it took a while.

I got involved in August 2001 after the big rub with Distributed.Net over the Dmcowan674 mess. There was a huge exodus of RC5 and OGR crackers at that time, so many TIMO (then SysOpt) and Team AnandTech people went to ECCp.

I found a ton of good info from this thread at Team Weazy.

Jay Berg is currently warming up with his RSA ECM project He plans on modeling ECC2-109 after ECM.

If anybody is interested in ECC2, I would strongly suggest looking at these links.

viz

Daft_Ghosty · October 27th, 2002, 11:49 AM

18 months isn't nothing.. Rc5 took what.. almost 5 years.. somewhere around 1700+ days.

and projects like Seti are still running.. it opened doors in 1999.. 18 months.. that's a short one =)

FalcomPSX · October 27th, 2002, 01:34 PM

sounds like ecc2-109 wont support sneakernet...so if that's true then i won't be able to compete properly....oh well.

Phynix · October 27th, 2002, 02:13 PM

To further answer your question, Falcom, it will support Sneakernet. The server is being setup so you can email your DP's in, and get a confirmation email back. So you can transfer your DP's from a non-networked machine via floppy and email them via any networked machine.

Creatures · October 27th, 2002, 02:17 PM

this is pretty cool
Phynix!
thanks for the info! ( because we have got an old PC (old but fast) without Network port!)

Creatures

ragtop · October 27th, 2002, 06:33 PM

Thanks for the head's up Viz. I'm looking forward to working on this one!!

DutchMaster · October 27th, 2002, 06:39 PM

Can't wait.

Thanks, Viztech, Thud and Phynix for the info.