Download Seventeen or Bust 25.9

With the help of computer users around the world, the distributed computing project Seventeen or Bust is trying the smallest Sierpinski number to prove. Over the years, most values ​​have been excluded, except for seventeen values ​​that remained. So Seventeen or Bust was founded to check the remaining values. To this day, eleven of the seventeen values ​​have already been ruled out, but the other six values ​​have not yet been proven. The developers released a completely new version of the client a few days ago, which is now based on the well-known client of Gimps. The version number of the SoB client has been aligned with the Gimps client and has therefore arrived at 25.9. The following announcement tells all about it:

BRAND NEW CLIENT SOFTWARE

Prime95 client for SB Seventeen or Bust users can now run a specially configured version of Prime95 directly on our server!

This represents a huge step forward in terms of speed and efficiency so we’re recommending that anyone with previous versions of SB migrate to the new software.

Major Enhancements:

• Mac OS X (intel) clients now available!
• Full multi-core support
• 64-bit processor support
• 15% faster per thread than SB v2.5.0
• P-1 factoring (with cEM credit for factors)
• Separate network thread – no delays
• Now communicates on port 80
• 98.2% less network traffic
• Better save file handling (no registry keys in windows!)

Remember though, this is not a “drop-in” replacement for previous SB clients. This is brand new software. So even if you’re a current user, you still have to follow the instructions in “Step 3” on the download page. Also, if your current version of SB is about to finish a full test, try to let it complete before removing SB because you can’t migrate workunits.

Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux clients are all available now so Download and setup the new client!

Special thanks to George Woltman whose work made this release possible.

And drop by the forums if you run into any trouble or have questions about the new client. Thanks for your continued support and for crunching SB!