Throw 40 machines at a project, reap the results: I broke into the top 1000 on Distributed.net. That wasn't even using all of the machines at my disposal. Lets see, what machines am I using?

• i386
  • 1.2GHz Athlon (Windows ME)
  • 900MHz Athlon (OpenBSD 2.9) (2 total)
  • 800MHZ Duron (FreeBSD 4.3)
  • 500MHz Pentium III (Windows 2000 Server)
  • 366MHz Celeron (OpenBSD 2.9)
  • 266MHz Pentium (OpenBSD 2.9)
  • 200MHz Pentium (OpenBSD 2.9)
• PPC
  • 733 MHz G4 (Mac OS X Server 10.0.4)
  • 533 MHz Dual G4 (Mac OS X Server 10.0.4)
  • 500 MHz G4 (Mac OS 9.1) (8 total)
  • 400 MHz G3 (Mac OS 9.1) (5 total)
  • 266 MHz G3 (Mac OS 9.1) (20 total)

That's 43 machines and 18.25GHz so far. There are still 8 more iMacs (2.13GHz) that I am not using yet. They won't help much, but it all adds up...

D'oh! I forgot that distributed.net usually has a few projects at a time and that you have to configure your client if you want to work on one specific project. All of my clients (all 30 of them) are now working solely on RC5. About 600 work hours were spent on OGR, WTF that is...

Flash of genius! I don't know why I didn't think of this earlier. Just watch this page over the next few weeks....