Re: When will md5crk complete?

From: Tom St Denis (tomstdenis_at_iahu.ca)
Date: 05/23/04

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    Gregory G Rose wrote:
    > I was just looking at the md5crk web site, stats
    > page, http://www.md5crk.com/stats/ , and realized
    > that the rate of total MD5s per second isn't
    > climbing very much, and therefore the probability
    > of completion in a given time isn't getting much
    > better. So then I asked myself, "When do we expect
    > it to complete?", and I didn't like the answer (or
    > the punctuation :-) ); I get about 222 years.
    >
    > This surprised me. Were there really that many
    > more machines on the RC5/64 project? Or is MD5
    > really that much slower? Or what?

    IIRC on my Athlon XP box I got around 6M/sec with dnet and on my P4 I
    get around 11.3M/sec with md5crk.

    I don't think that md5crk is any slower I just think there are far fewer
    active members. Just recently I've gone up from mid 500 to ~290 in the
    ranking in the span of a week.

    The best advice is to just keep plugging, hope that Jean-Luc got his
    coding right [hehehe just kidin JL] and try to recruit new volunteers.

    Tom

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