Re: RC5 Challenge - Linux at Top

Paul Wouters (paul@xtdnet.nl)
Sun, 23 Feb 1997 02:44:45 +0100 (MET)


On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Michael Neuffer wrote:

> > I am thinking I should be getting in that top 15 list by now.
> > I think we have it running on 14 SGI's, 2 HP9000, 4 P133,
> > a handful of 486's, 13 Sparc 4's and 12 Sparc SLC's (Oh, and
> > our 386 doing 3100 keys/second ;)

Seems the lowest entry is already at 1700 keyblocks. The majority
joined in, and i dont think I'll get into it anymore. The linux
group is really growing at an insane rate. I wonder when microsoft
people will start to try and collect as much cpu power as the
linux community.

> Under which id are you running them ?

Where I have root access, they are launched as nobody. I put as
much trust in their rc5-client as I trusted Bliss. By now, I am
pretty sure it's a legitimate binary. On some others they run
as my personal account which has no privs whatsoever on those
machines.

Paul