distributed.net completes its OGR-24 project
distributed.net successfully completed its OGR-24 distributed computing project on November 1, 2004. This project, which began over 4 years ago, used a brute force method to find the shortest, or optimal, 24-mark Golomb ruler, a ruler in which no two marks are the same distance apart. The project tested over 555,529,785,505,835,800 rulers (twice, to verify its results), and determined that the previously best-known ruler, 24/9-24-4-1-59-25-7-11-2-10-39-14-3-44-26-8-40-6-21-15-16-19-22, is optimal. Almost 42,000 volunteers participated in the project.
distributed.net is currently running an OGR-25 project, which began over 4 years ago and is over 65% complete, and a RC5-72 project (an attempt to solve the 72-bit RSA Labs secret-key challenge), which began over 2 years ago and is 0.16% complete.
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