ABC@Home
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ABC@Home is an educational and non-profit network computing
project finding abc-triples related to the abc conjecture
in number theory.
Using the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing
(BOINC) distributed computing
platform. , there are more than 7,300 active participants from 114 countries with a total BOINC credit
of more than 2.9 billion, reporting about 10 teraflops
(10 trillion operations per second) of processing power.
the Data Collected page for the project lists 21.1 million triples which have been found.
The minimum system requirements necessary to contribute to the project are as follows
Network computing
Network computing is a generic term in computing which refers to computers or nodes working together over a network.It may also mean:*Cloud computing*Distributed computing*Virtual Network Computing...
project finding abc-triples related to the abc conjecture
Abc conjecture
The abc conjecture is a conjecture in number theory, first proposed by Joseph Oesterlé and David Masser in 1985. The conjecture is stated in terms of three positive integers, a, b and c , which have no common factor and satisfy a + b = c...
in number theory.
Using the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing
Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing
The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing is an open source middleware system for volunteer and grid computing. It was originally developed to support the SETI@home project before it became useful as a platform for other distributed applications in areas as diverse as mathematics,...
(BOINC) distributed computing
Distributed computing
Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems. A distributed system consists of multiple autonomous computers that communicate through a computer network. The computers interact with each other in order to achieve a common goal...
platform. , there are more than 7,300 active participants from 114 countries with a total BOINC credit
BOINC Credit System
Within the BOINC platform for volunteer computing, the BOINC Credit System helps volunteers keep track of how much CPU time they have donated to various distributed computing projects. The credit system is designed to avoid cheating by validating results before granting credit on projects...
of more than 2.9 billion, reporting about 10 teraflops
FLOPS
In computing, FLOPS is a measure of a computer's performance, especially in fields of scientific calculations that make heavy use of floating-point calculations, similar to the older, simpler, instructions per second...
(10 trillion operations per second) of processing power.
the Data Collected page for the project lists 21.1 million triples which have been found.
The minimum system requirements necessary to contribute to the project are as follows
- Minimum of 256MB RAM free
- 2MB of free disk space
- windows, linux, mac (recommended with a 64bit cpu)