distributed.net

The Organization

distributed.net was the Internet's first multi-purpose distributed computing project.

Founded in 1997, our network has grown to include thousands of volunteers around the world donating the power of their home computers, cell phones and tablets to academic research and public-interest projects. Join us today in this ground-breaking cloud computing experience! We need your help...

It's very simple to participate in our projects. You only need to download a small program, which will talk to our network and begin to process work immediately. The program uses only the computer's idle time, so when you want to use your computer, it 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-28 completion (November 22, 2022)

distributed.net is proud to announce the completion of OGR-28 after approximately 8.5 years, with the help from our network of volunteers! For the full announcement, please read the official announcement here!

OGR-28 update (November 16, 2022)

Check bovine's recent post about OGR-28 wrapping up. We'll have another official announcement with more details coming soon!

OGR-28 update (August 26, 2021)

We have now verified 410 million stubs on OGR-28! Moo!

OGR-28 update (July 28, 2021)

We have now verified 405 million stubs on OGR-28! Moo!

OGR-28 update (July 20, 2021)

505 million (96.3%) of all of the stubs in OGR-28 have been tested once. Moo!

OGR-28 update (June 24, 2021)

We have now verified 400 million stubs on OGR-28! Moo!

OGR-28 update (June 7, 2021)

We have now verified 395 million stubs on OGR-28! Moo!

OGR-28 update (June 3, 2021)

500 million (95.4%) of all of the stubs in OGR-28 have been tested once. Moo!

OGR-28 update (April 25, 2021)

More than 64,000 of us are working together on the search for OGR-28!

OGR-28 update (March 29, 2021)

We have now verified 370 million stubs on OGR-28! Moo!

OGR-28 update (March 3, 2021)

We have now verified 360 million stubs on OGR-28! Moo!

RC5-72 update (February 17, 2021)

More than 142,000 of us are working together on RC5-72! Thank you for telling your friends to join us. Moo!

OGR-28 update (February 15, 2021)

We have now verified 355 million stubs on OGR-28! Moo!

OGR-28 update (January 26, 2021)

490 million of all of the stubs in OGR-28 have been tested once and 350 million have been verified! Moo!

OGR-28 update (January 7, 2021)

487 million (~93%) of all of the stubs in OGR-28 have been tested once, and more than 345 million (~66%) have been verified! Moo!

OGR-28 update (December 15, 2020)

We have now verified 340 million stubs on OGR-28! Moo!

OGR-28 update (November 22, 2020)

More than 63,000 of us are working together on OGR-28! Thank you for telling your friends to join us :)

OGR-28 update (November 11, 2020)

We have now verified 330 million stubs on OGR-28! Moo!

OGR-28 update (November 1, 2020)

481 million (~92%) of all of the stubs in OGR-28 have been tested once, and more than 328 million (~63%) have been verified! Moo!

OGR-28 update (October 4, 2020)

480 million of all of the stubs in OGR-28 have been tested once, and more than 324 million (~62%) have been verified! Moo!

OGR-28 update (September 19, 2020)

We have now verified 320 million stubs on OGR-28! Moo!

RC5-72 update (September 10, 2020)

We passed 7% complete on RC5-72! Thank you all :) Moo!

Project update (August 16, 2020)

478 million of all of the stubs in OGR-28 have been tested once, and more than 313 million (~60%) have been verified! Moo!

OGR-28 update (August 5, 2020)

We have now verified 310 million stubs on OGR-28! Moo!

OGR-28 update (July 29, 2020)

We passed 75% complete on OGR-28! Thank you all :) Moo!

Project update (July 16, 2020)

477 million (~91%) of all of the stubs in OGR-28 have been tested once, and more than 306 million have been verified! We express our thanks to the members of Formula BOINC for including Moo! Wrapper (and our RC5 project) in their Sprint series. Moo!

Project update (July 9, 2020)

We are picking up the pace on RC5-72 but we still need help. Tell your friends! Moo!

Project update (June 21, 2020)

We have completed 6.7% of the search space of RC5-72. Moo!

OGR-28 update (May 31, 2020)

We have now verified 300 million stubs on OGR-28! Moo!

OGR-28 update (May 14, 2020)

We have now verified 295 million stubs on OGR-28! Moo!

Spring forward (May 7, 2020)

As the weather warms up, you can adjust dnetc to compute using fewer cores. Moo!

OGR-28 update (April 15, 2020)

We have now verified 290 million stubs on OGR-28! Moo!

Project update (April 5, 2020)

We have completed 6.5% of the search space of RC5-72. Thank you :) Moo!

Project update (March 16, 2020)

We have now verified more than 285 million stubs on OGR-28! Moo!

RC5-72 update (March 4, 2020)

More than 140,000 of us are working together on RC5-72! Moo!

OGR-28 update (March 2, 2020)

470 million (89.7%) of all of the stubs in OGR-28 have been tested once, and more than 282 million have been verified! Moo!

Project update (February 14, 2020)

We have now verified more than 280 million stubs on OGR-28! Moo!

RC5-72 milestone! (February 3, 2020)

On Superbowl Sunday, we passed more than 70 billion RC5-72 blocks completed! Moo!

Project update (January 14, 2020)

464 million (88.5%) of all of the stubs in OGR-28 have been tested once, and almost 273 million have been verified! Moo!

OGR-28 update (January 6, 2020)

More than 61,000 of us are working together on OGR-28 and we passed 70% complete of all of the work needed to prove OGR-28! Moo!

Project update (January 3, 2020)

We have now verified more than 271 million stubs on OGR-28 and more than 69 billion blocks on RC5-72! Moo!

Project update (December 30, 2019)

More than 61,000 of us are working together on OGR-28 and we passed 70% complete of all of the work needed to prove OGR-28! Moo!

Project update (December 3, 2019)

We have now verified more than 265 million stubs on OGR-28! Moo!

Project update (November 5, 2019)

460 million (87.8%) of all of the stubs in OGR-28 have been tested once, and almost 260 million have been verified! Moo!

Project update (October 24, 2019)

We have completed 6.1% of the search space of RC5-72. Thank you :) More than 139,000 of us are working together on RC5-72 and we have tested more than 67 billion blocks! Moo!

New merchandise! (October 19, 2019)

We relaunch dnetware today! https://www.distributed.net/dnetware

Project update (September 20, 2019)

Our progress: 87.3% of OGR-28 stubs have been calculated once. 48.3% of stubs have been verified.

Project update (September 17, 2019)

Our keyrate would be even higher if we did fewer iter 1 RC5 packets and more of the bigger sizes. Check your client configuration. Moo!

Milestones! (September 5, 2019)

We have passed two milestones on the same day! We have tested 6% of the key space for the RC5-72 project and verified 250 million stubs for OGR-28. Moo!

As fast as a Cray XC40? Wow! (August 23, 2019)

Read the latest news about our projects on Moike's blog: http://blogs.distributed.net/2019/08/23/02/44/mikereed/

Weather (August 7, 2019)

July was the hottest month in human history! You can choose how many cores to run dnetc on to help your device keep cool.

Project update (August 2, 2019)

We passed 2/3 complete of all of the work needed to prove OGR-28! Moo!

Project update (July 16, 2019)

We have calculated more than 70 billion Gnodes in our pursuit of OGR-28! Moo!

Project update (July 15, 2019)

We have now verified more than 244 million stubs on OGR-28! Moo!

Project update (July 13, 2019)

We have nearly completed 5.9% of the search space of RC5-72. Thank you :) Moo!

Project update (June 28, 2019)

We are very close to 60,000 contributors to OGR-28.. tell a friend?

BOINC update (June 22, 2019)

We express our thanks to the members of Formula BOINC for including Moo! Wrapper (and our RC5 project) in their Sprint series. Moo!

Project update (June 21, 2019)

Our progress: 86% of OGR-28 stubs have been calculated once. 46% of stubs have been verified. We recently completed 5.8% of the search space of RC5-72. Thank you everyone :) Moo!

Project update (June 17, 2019)

We have now verified more than 240 million stubs on OGR-28! Moo!

New client! (June 11, 2019)

We have a new optimised client available for those of you with ARM64 devices running Linux! Sunset has written a new core, "MONIKA". Check out our download/pre-release page!

Project update (June 8, 2019)

450 million (85.8%) of all of the stubs in OGR-28 have been tested once, and more than 236 million have been verified! Moo!

Project update (June 4, 2019)

We re-opened the 32-x part of the 3rd stub space of OGR-28.. and we just passed 5.8% complete of the RC5-72 project! Moo!

Project update (May 30, 2019)

We have now verified more than 230 million stubs and re-opened the 31-x part of the 3rd stub space of OGR-28. Moo!

Project update (May 18, 2019)

We have now verified more than 220 million stubs on OGR-28! Moo!

Project update (May 15, 2019)

Our progress: 85.3% of OGR-28 stubs have been calculated once. 41.9% of stubs have been verified.

BOINC update (May 9, 2019)

We express our thanks to the members of SETI Germany for including yoyo@home (and our OGR project) in their BOINC Pentathlon. Moo!

Project update (May 1, 2019)

We have now verified more than 210 million stubs on OGR-28! Moo!

Project update (April 19, 2019)

We recently completed 5.7% of the search space of RC5-72. Thank you everyone :) Moo!

Project update (April 15, 2019)

Our progress: 84% of OGR-28 stubs have been calculated once. 39% of stubs have been verified.

Project update (April 4, 2019)

We have now verified more than 200 million stubs on OGR-28! Moo!

Project update (April 3, 2019)

More than 138,000 of us are working together on RC5-72 and we have tested more than 62 billion blocks!

Project update (March 27, 2019)

More than 59,000 of us are working together on OGR-28 and we have verified more than 196 million stubs!

Project update (March 1, 2019)

We re-opened the 14-x part of the 3rd stub space of OGR-28 and we've now verified more than 185 million stubs. Moo!

Project update (February 1, 2019)

We re-opened the 32-x part of the 3rd stub space of OGR-28 - the last one. All of the stubs for OGR-28 that need calculating have now been issued twice! Do not adjust your set.. dnetc will continue to work normally. Our progress: 82.7% of OGR-28 stubs have been calculated once. 34.3% of stubs have been verified. Moo!

OGR-28 progress (January 27, 2019)

We have now verified more than 175 million stubs on OGR-28! Moo!

RC5-72 progress (January 21, 2019)

We recently completed 5.5% of the search space of RC5-72. Thank you everyone :) Moo!

A new Mersenne prime! (January 17, 2019)

Congratulations to our friends at GIMPS who recently discovered the 51st known Mersenne Prime number! https://www.mersenne.org/primes/?press=M82589933

OGR-28 progress (January 17, 2019)

We have now verified more than 170 million stubs on OGR-28! Moo!

Special thanks

distributed.net would like to thank FlightAware and DreamHost for their donations of secure collocation space, bandwidth, or virtual private servers. We are pleased that these organizations support our endeavors and continue helping us provide a high level of service for our members.

Other Neat Things

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• Check out our line of distributed.net merchandise including shirts, mugs, mousepads, and more!
• Beautify your workspace with a desktop picture of our logo.
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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.
• There are always people online on our IRC channel #distributed on the Libera.Chat IRC network irc.libera.chat.