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- {subhead} Amiga RC5 Team takes 5th place of 7000!{def}
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- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE{p}
- July 21st 1999
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- The Amiga RC5 Team effort moves up to fifth overall ranking in
- statistics
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- The Amiga RC5 Team effort has overtaken the Japanese Linux team in the
- Distributed.Net/RC5-64 challenge and is now ranked fifth
- overall out of over 7000 teams (consisting of an estimated 180,000
- participants). The race for the fourth position is now underway, and
- we are gaining as fast on the Japanese FreeBSD team as we did on the
- Linux team.
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- The Amiga RC5 Team effort focuses on bringing exposure to the Amiga and
- the community spirit and strives to achieve this by ranking
- high in distributed computing projects such as the RC5 and DES
- challenges, using otherwise idle computing power only.
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- Almost 2000 individuals with about 3500 machines (over half of which are
- Amigas) are participating in the Amiga team now, and our
- growth continues, the number of PowerPC equipped Amigas for example now
- stands at 580 (or about 30% of all Amigas). There is still
- plenty of time to participate, as the current search for the RC5-64 key
- stands at 10.5% of the keyspace.
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- Together with the unfolding plans of Amiga and of course your help, we
- hope to increase our momentum and support the rebirth of
- Amiga by showing that the community has not deserted the platform in
- spite of years of stagnation and setbacks.
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- Everyone is cordially invited to join, with any kind of machine, though
- one Amiga at least is appreciated. For a full explanation of what
- the effort is about, where we are heading, how to participate and
- everything from statistics to member listings, please visit the Amiga
- RC5 Team effort homepage at {link http://distributed.amiga.org}http://distributed.amiga.org{end}.
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- The Amiga RC5 Team effort is also providing a mailinglist as a forum for
- the discussion on above topics and the effort in general.