A Call to Arms to encourage Mac participation in the RC5-cracking contest at distributed.net. The Mac OS client software is AltiVec optimized, giving us a huge advantage over other chips. Got G4? See here:


• Distributed.net RC5 scores (million keys/sec.)

• Intel P4/2600 (overclocked) = 4.9

• AMD K7/1600 (stock) = 5.7

• Moto G4/800 (stock) = 8.3

• Moto G4/1000DP = 21.1


Check the overall stats here. The main Mac group “Evangelistas” (team #366) is languishing in 6th place overall. We used to rule! We could easily move ahead of the Slashdot geeks with a couple more G4/1000′s and a few iMacs This is the home stretch!

Get the Crunching Cows GUI front-end for the RC5 OS X client from here.