bovine – distributed.net: staff blogs

Dear friends, distributed.net is proud to announce the completion of OGR-28 after approximately 8.5 years, with the help from our network of volunteers! We started our calculations to prove the o...

https://blogs.distributed.net/2022/11/23/03/28/bovine/

This is just a brief note to mention that we are indeed aware that OGR-28 stubs are intentionally no longer being distributed by our keyservers. This is because we have tentatively completed all ...

https://blogs.distributed.net/2022/11/17/03/01/bovine/

There was a brief unplanned outage of the keymaster for about 8 hours earlier today, but the network is in the process of catching up right now and should be back to normal soon. There will also ...

https://blogs.distributed.net/2016/11/18/20/27/bovine/

Well, after nearly 12 days we’ve managed to get the old keymaster hardware back online. The problem ended up being some failing RAM, though the symptoms weren’t immediately obvious as that. ...

https://blogs.distributed.net/2015/07/22/02/00/bovine/

We are experiencing another hardware issue with our central keymaster, and we do not yet have an estimate for it to be brought back online. However, our proxy network will continue to buffer com...

https://blogs.distributed.net/2015/07/10/04/28/bovine/

We experienced some hardware issues with our keymaster server today, possibly due to a mechanical issue. It had a few hours of downtime on 2015-05-16 causing work to become backlogged and buffer...

https://blogs.distributed.net/2015/05/17/02/37/bovine/

We’re currently in the process of doing some backend database, webserver, and OS upgrades to our stats servers, so we’ve temporarily disabled access to it until we’re done. Once we’ve ver...

https://blogs.distributed.net/2015/04/10/22/38/bovine/

As previously announced, we had to move our stats servers to a new hosting location due to changes at our old hosting provider.  Logistically it was quickest and easiest for us to simply physic...

https://blogs.distributed.net/2014/05/12/01/41/bovine/

Our stats server is currently offline as we prepare it for relocation.  We expect it to be back online tomorrow around 2014-05-11 at about 22:00 UTC but it is possible that we may need to delay...

https://blogs.distributed.net/2014/05/10/15/20/bovine/

We’re very close being able to declare OGR-27 finished, but we have just a few more stubs remaining before final completion. The previous stubspaces 27.1, 27.2, and 27.3 are now officially comp...

https://blogs.distributed.net/2014/01/22/09/28/bovine/