TechIMO ECCp Team Needs YOU!

[Thud]

I'm sure many of you have seen the thread titles pop up occaisonally preceded by [ECCp], and wonder what it means.

ECCp is a distributed computing project to solve Certicom's ECCp109 Challenge (more here). In a nutshell, we're cracking encryption code. The project is being hosted by a student at Notre Dame. This is more of a "grass roots" project, as it doesn't have the financial backing of some of the bigger projects. Most of the development is done by people like you and me...not for profit, but for the fun of it. One of our own members (Virus) even runs a proxy server for the team, which gives us real time (every 15 min) statistics.

Our team has been ranked as high as 2nd in the world, and we're currently running in 3rd out of 157 teams. Right now our spot is being threated by a team from a website similar to TechIMO, known as ArsTechnica. We've got a solid group of "crunchers" now, but we'll need more to stave them off. This is a good way to promote TechIMO, which I believe is the best website of its kind on the planet.

So how does it work? It's pretty simple: download the client and an "enhancement" for your particular platform, do some simple configurations, and let it run. It uses your unused clock cycles to perform its calculations, therefore is very unobtrusive. Nothing else to download. Just transmit the calculated points to Notre Dame every once in a while when you're online. Pretty simple!

It doesn't matter if you have 1 computer or 100, you will make a difference. If you were a former member of the team, we could use you back! Current member of a different project? You can run ECCp simultaneously (ask Phenious, the UD team captain). If you'd like to join forces with other people, you can form your own subteam...there are lots of options.

Ready to throw your hat into the ring? We have setup instructions here, not to mention a great bunch of folks who'll answer any questions you might have. Just visit the Distributed Computing forum, and put [ECCp] in your subject line, and you'll get answers.

One other thing I should mention is that it's pretty fun, too.

Thanks!

[AzKidd69]

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Well, Thud, shouldn't this be in DC? Is this soliciting?? TechIMO has a rule against that!

j/k

I'm just jealous 'cause I didn't think of it first for UD, hehe - we got into the top 70 teams now, did you know??

[DutchMaster]

Okay I will check it out still don't know which one to go UD or ECCp?

[Thud]

TechIMO has a rule against that!

Yeah, well Fingers has my back on this one.

we got into the top 70 teams now, did you know??

Yep. If you look waaayyyy down in the stats, you'll see I'm doing UD, too.

Yeah, well Fingers has my back on this one.

What can I say? Without getting myself into mod trouble?

I wish you luck in your recruitment drive and with staving of Arstechnica.
Cheers
Mick

[Pshawn5]

go thud! stop them ars! :P

but don't get too close to us

[samwichse]

It's more fun than you'd think.

My ex got into it and is always wanting to save up for big dumps then having a hard time keeping off the send button. She's asked me how she can make more points faster about 15 times .

Sam

Team samwichse. (yeah I know it's an evil stats page, but it's got good ones )

[samwichse]

Oops.. double.

[Kuasimodem]

I'm trying to do my part, running two machines as much as I can without getting in trouble over the electric bill (room mate thinks that the computers draw tons of power, even with the monitors off).

Here's my evil stats page