Tutorials on Distributed Computing
This is a
page with guides designed to let everyone be able to let their computers help
in solving problems.
What is
Distributed Computing? Look here for an
explanation.
I think
there are many potential participants (and their computers) out there who would
do some DC if they knew how. Therefore I’ve written guides to some projects hoping
that they will help the new people to get started.
This page
contains (I hope) everything a newbie should need to know about how to
participate in a project. It is far from complete, but any suggestions would be
welcome. Just email me an idea and
I’ll see what I can do – be aware that I’m not very active anymore.
Also, if
you want to add a guide then send it (along with any pictures to be added in
the guide) to my email and I’ll give you all the credit. However, I’ll reserve
the right to change the sound of your guide if it gets to sound too advanced.
This is a “newbie portal” after all.
Below is an
index of the guides and what projects they’re
regarding
Math-projects
hosted by mersenneforum.org (these include the following:)
100 Million Digits Prefactor Project
321 Search
Operation Billion Digits
Prime Sierpinski Project
Sierpinski/Riesel Base 5
Seventeen or Bust (including subprojects about
sieving and factoring)
How to use ECMclient (on the following projects:)
Cunningham Project
ElevenSmooth
Mersenneplustwo
Factorisations
XYYXF Project
(Useful
tool to all sorts of programs)
(A
lot of projects)
Prime Sierpinski
Project
RieselSieve
Sierpinski/Riesel
Base 5
Prime
Sierpinski Project
RieselSieve
Seventeen or Bust
How to check if you
support SSE2
A little
bit about some of the problems the projects are trying to solve.
The Sierpinski Problem (dansk version)
Thanks go
out to the following people for helping me with the guides and for linking to
them:
Mads
Peter Rommedahl (OmbooHankvald - me)
(fetofs) Proofreading
Lars Dausch (ltd)
Alex Kruppa (akruppa) Help
(VJS) Linking
(em99010pepe) Proofreading
(garo) Linking
(Citrix) Linking/Proofreading