Download Distributed.net Client 2.9008.490

Distributed.net is a platform on which a number of distributed computing projects are currently running. A new version of their client has recently been released for the OGR project. The version number has now arrived at 2.9008-490 with which the second phase of the OGR project can be started. We found the following description on the website†

As some people may have noticed, the percentage complete for phase 1 of OGR25 will soon be approaching 100%. Within the next week or so, we will be halting “OGR classic” (for both OGR24 and OGR25) and launching OGRp2 (phase 2 of both OGR24 and OGR25).

The second phase of the project will continue searching of the left-over stubs that were intentionally excluded from the original “OGR classic” search-space, due to original concerns about having enough network capacity to efficiently handle the large numbers extremely small stubs. OGRp2 addresses this issue by instructing each client to search the many “micro”-stubs that exist within a large stub-range and return the combined search as a single result. It is expected that OGRp2 should take less time to complete than “OGR classic” did for phase 1.

Due to the nature of this new search logic, new clients and proxies will be needed in order to participate in OGRp2. Once “OGR classic” is shut off, any old clients will only participate in RC5-72 if that project has been left enabled on your client, otherwise your old clients will shutdown and go idle.

Client version 2.9008-490 is the minimum version that will support OGRp2. Personal Proxy build 341 is the minimum that will support the OGRp2 project. Updated client and proxy binaries will become available on the pre-release page for experienced users who wish to help by becoming early testers of OGRp2. Please report any issues you discover with the client and proxy in our bugzilla database. Depending on the severity of any possible problems discovered in the pre-release binaries, it may be necessary to discard these early OGRp2 results however we are not expecting that to occur.

Changes in 2.9008-490:

• new: all: Enable OGR-24 and OGR-25 Phase 2 (finalization)
• new: amigaos: native OS4 port

[break]The following downloads are available:
Windows 32 bit
Mac OS X/Darwin
OS/2
Linux PPC
Linux x86/ELF/ulibc
Linux Sparc
Solaris/SunOS x86
Solaris/SunOS Sparc
AmigaOS PPC/WarpOS
AmigaOS PPC/OS4
AmigaOS PPC/PowerUp
AmigaOS m68k
Tru64 UNIX / DEC UNIX / OSF1 Alpha/non-mt
Tru64 UNIX / DEC UNIX / OSF1 Alpha/mt
AIX Power
AIX PowerPC
MorphOS PPC