new team: abc@home

http://abcathome.com/

ABC@home is a distributed computing project enabling a great search for so called abc-triples. The project is comparable in a way to GIMPS, another mathematical project. These abc-triples are positive integers a,b,c such that a+b=c, a < b < c, a,b,c have no common divisors and c > rad(abc), the so-called radical of abc. The ABC conjecture says that there are only finitely many a,b,c such that log(c)/log(rad(abc)) > h for any real h > 1. The ABC conjecture is currently one of the greatest open problems in mathematics. If it is proven to be true, a lot of other open problems can be answered directly from it.

abc@home team page http://abcathome.com/team_display.php?teamid=405


Right now a beta 64 bit windows client is still being tested, but hopefully it will be out soon. The 64 bit linux client is supposedly 3 times faster than the 32 bit client as well.

Overall the project is using 576KB and the WUs are small as well. The first WU took my [email protected] about 20 minutes.

The project is pretty wide open, right now I'm around #25 in ppd just with my conroe and crappy laptop crunching. In the next couple weeks we'll go from #134 to #75 easily, should be easy points for the dc-vault.

I'll try to get this loaded up on a rig sometime in the next couple of days

I added it to the vault, gave us 6600 points already. In less than 2 weeks we should go from 125 to 75 as well

Got it loaded up, but it's only a 1ghz athlon

I have my old p3 1ghz laptop crunching this, 100ppd is better than nothing

sno.lcn said:

Got it loaded up, but it's only a 1ghz athlon

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Hey! Don't talk bad about the 1ghz procs. I've got 1ghz Duron that's a long standing member of my folding farm.