Download Seventeen or Bust 2.5.06 beta

The “Seventeen or Bust” distributed computing project, with the help of computer users around the world, tries to find the smallest sierpinski number to prove. Over the years, most values ​​have been excluded, except for seventeen values ​​that remained. That is why Seventeen or Bust was founded to check the remaining values. To date, eleven of the seventeen values ​​have already been excluded. The development team has released a new beta version of the client with 2.5.06 as the version number. The announcement looks like this:

OS X Intel Beta Client [v2.5.06]

This is the first beta build of an OS X client. Feel free to give it a shot. Similar to the recent Linux beta builds, this client supports TransmitBlocks. This release package includes the binary and the configuration.

Caveats (for v2.5.06): YMMV. This is even more beta. I need to do more testing on this client to make sure things are reported properly, as we have never had an OS X client before. Please test with it, but don’t deploy widely.

Linux Beta Client [v2.5.06]

Allllrighty.. for your pleasure: Uncompress, add ‘TransmitBlocks X’ where X is how many blocks you want it to transmit after. Eg, ‘TransmitBlocks 10’ will transmit an update after every 10 blocks.

Caveats (for v2.5.05): YMMV. This is beta. This fixes another bug which may actually cause other problems but probably not. I won’t be doing this for the windows client. I may build one for FreeBSD.

Caveats (for v2.5.06): YMMV. This is even more beta. This uses updated math libraries which should result in a speed improvement. I have not done calculations to figure out how much faster it is, but if other people would like to that’d be great. This should fix the P4 and other crashes that were occurring. Because of the updated libraries, I need to do more testing on this client to make sure things are reported properly. Please test with it, but don’t deploy widely.[break]The following three files are ready:
Seventeen or Bust 2.5.06 beta – Mac OS X
Seventeen or Bust 2.5.06 beta – Linux lib23
Seventeen or Bust 2.5.06 beta – Linux lib24