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The Organization
distributed.net was the Internet's first general-purpose distributed computing project. Founded in 1997, our network has grown to include thousands of users around the world donating the power of their home computers to academic research and public-interest projects. Join us in this ground-breaking computing experience. We need your help...
It's very simple to participate in our challenges. You only need to download a small program, which will talk to our network and begin to process parts of the current challenges. The program uses only the computer's idle time, so when you want to use your computer, the client will automatically get out of your way. Plus, there's that cute little cow icon...
There's more information on setting up the client, and about what our mission statement is.
Recent Headlines
OGR-24 Project Successfully Completed
The OGR-24 project was successfully completed and closed on 1-Nov-2004.
OGRp2 is now running
Phase 1 of OGR has been completed (aka "OGR classic") and Phase 2 ("OGRp2") has now officially started, as of 16-May-2004. Released clients and personal proxies for many platforms are available on the download page, but additional platforms are being rapidly added. Look at the plans of bovine and decibel for more details.
RC5-72 Clients Available!
The RC5-72 project is now officially up and running, as of 03-Dec-2002! You will need to download a new client in order to participate. Our FAQ-O-matic has been updated with the beginnings of a new RC5-72 section.
RC5-64 Finished!
On 14-Jul-2002, after 1757 days of searching the winning key to RSA Labs' RC5-64 project was successfully recovered by distributed.net. 0x63DE7DC154F4D039 was returned by a P3-450 in Japan running Windows 2000. We're done!
Special thanks
distributed.net would like to thank Internet Systems Consortium for its donation of secure colocation space and bandwidth. The ISC has helped us before and we are pleased that they are willing to continue helping us to provide a high level of service for our members.
Other Neat Things
dnetWare is now available! Check out our line of distributed.net merchandise including shirts, mugs, mousepads, and more!
Here are a few other neat places to visit:
- Beautify your workspace with a desktop picture of our logo.
- Do you have a webpage? You can help advertise distributed.net by putting a banner on your pages!
Further Information
If you want to learn more about our project, first stop by our Press Room to read the announcements of our past victories; then browse the following.
- Read our How To Help.
- Check out our documentation section.
- We have some Mailing lists you can join.
- For our international members, you can contact your Regional Representative who will answer your questions in your native language.
- There are always people online on our IRC channel #distributed on our private IRC network irc.distributed.net.