[ANNOUNCE] OGR is BACK!

[Paul Gentle]

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Greetings cows of the world!

Earlier this year, distributed.net began integrating the Optimal
Golomb Rules project (http://www.distributed.net/ogr/) into its
network. However, some clients were returning inordinately large node
counts for completed stubs. When sharing buffer files between certain
combinations of platforms, buffers were becoming corrupted.

New clients have been built with this bug corrected, and we are now
ready to restart the OGR project. On Friday July 13, 2000 at 0000UTC,
we will restart from the beginning of OGR-24, using smaller work
units that can be turned around more quickly. When OGR-24 is complete
we will move right on to OGR-25 and so on.

Although OGR code has been present in the dnetc clients since version
v2.8002.446, no blocks will be accepted from versions prior to
v2.8009.460. We ask that you update your clients
(http://www.distributed.net/download/clients.html) to v2.8009.460 or
higher. These clients have been available for some time now and you
should take the time to upgrade as many systems as you can.

Even if you don't plan on participating in the OGR projects, you will
want to upgrade your clients because of major network and
buffer-management improvements. Check out the changes document
(http://www.distributed.net/download/changes.txt) for a complete
listof changes.

Stats have been completed for OGR and will be processed with the RC5
stats run on the first day of the contest. For information on changes
to stats see http://n0cgi.distributed.net/~decibel/newstats.txt

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