Posts by William Osendott

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1) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC runs very slowly
Message 28405
Posted 30 Oct 2009 by ProfileWilliam Osendott 		I have noticed that my BOINC projects are also taking a lot longer than they used to. I had uninstalled BOINC for a while earlier in the year and have just recently picked it back up. I am currently running Einstein@home on 3 cpu's and Enigma@home on my mac... Earlier in the year both Einstein and Enigma would complete workunits in only a couple hours or so (had 11,000+ credits in a relatively short amount of time.) Einstein had similar times. Now it takes 1.2 days p/ work unit or so this is the same for both my laptop (AMD Turion 64 1.3ghz) and desktop (Dell 2x 2.3ghz p4)... I would sort of expect it on the mac as it's an older G3, but like I said, the laptop used to do the work very quickly and the desktop should be doing circles around the laptop yes? (both the desktop and the laptop are not used often, and BOINC is running 24/7) Has something changed with BOINC or the projects or have I inadvertantly done something wrong or ...? From what I've gathered Einstein@home has changed somewhat now using Arecibo data, but with Enigma showing the same decrease in speed it had me wondering...
2) Message boards : Projects : Project suitability for BIONIC?
Message 28367
Posted 29 Oct 2009 by ProfileWilliam Osendott 		I have been wondering about using distributed networking to solve the zodiac ciphers for quite some time now. I have discussed it with a few people, but never got very far with it. I am currently involved with enigma@home as well as the original m4 project's software - and I fail to see why a similar approach could not be used in cracking the zodiac ciphers. Even if it were more like a networked version of zkdecrypto it would be better than nothing. Start with the 340 cipher and work our way through them. (or start with the 408 if you want to make sure the software works, as you'd have plaintext to compare the results to)

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