Pre-Releases
This is PRE-RELEASE Software. Please Read Completely before Downloading.
The following downloads are PRE-RELEASE versions. In an effort to provide quality clients at release time we will PRE-RELEASE clients for bug checking. There are two major types of versions available on this page:
- release-candidate These versions are not time restricted and will generally become release-worthy in at minimum 4 days if no significant bugs are found. If significant bugs are found, clients may be removed and replaced with fixed versions for another 4 days.
- beta No beta clients are currently available.
These versions should not be used for widespread distribution. The files available here are intended for limited use by people who are willing to help us test these binaries before they are announced for general availability. If you do use them please pay attention to this page and the released client pages for any updates.
People who use these binaries must be willing to watch their clients carefully after installing them (to notice/report anomalous behavior). Additionally, they must retain access to the machine to be able to rapidly update it to the latest version if the binary is updated with another pre-release or release binary (don't install on machines that will be going out of your control anytime soon).
Please submit bugs on our bugs page.
Remember that these versions are not officially released yet and can be removed at any time.
Download Links
| Linux | ||||
| 1 | [AMD64/CUDA] | v2.9101.508 | 2008-11-25 | http | ftp |
| 2 | [CellBE] | v2.9101.508a | 2008-11-25 | http | ftp |
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1. nVidia CUDA video card accelerated client. RC5-72 only. CUDA libraries and drivers must be pre-installed. Beta expires in 28 days. Visit bug 4030 for details. 2. Cell Broadband Engine, PlayStation 3. Now supports OGR-NG on SPE. Release candidate. | ||||
| NetBSD | ||||
| 3 | [x86] | v2.9101.508 | 2008-11-27 | http | ftp |
| 4 | [MIPSEL] | v2.9101.508 | 2008-11-25 | http | ftp |
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3. release candidate 4. release candiate | ||||
Additional Information
client v2.910x contain support for OGR-NG, which is needed for OGR-26 and beyond. Please keep these items in mind when running one of these versions.
- These clients communicate with the DNS address *.v29.distributed.net.
- These v2.910x clients can only send/receive OGR-NG packets when communicating with a proxy of build 343 or higher. Clients will still be able to do RC5-72 packets if communicating with a proxy of build 330 or higher.
- Proxies build 335 or higher will only communicate to clients v2.8015.469 or higher. Proxies build 341 or higher will only communicate to upstream servers also of build 341 or higher.
- All RC5-72 workunits are now of size 2^32. The client currently does not allow the selection of larger sized workunits, though we will re-introduce this functionality at a later time. There are no plans to provide smaller sized workunits.
- Although most of the RC5-72 cores in these clients are now partially optimized, we still welcome contributions of further core improvements. See the source code page for more details.
- Please do not send questions regarding these pre-release clients to any of the mailing lists. You are instead encouraged to ask them on IRC or by e-mailing support.