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About distributed.net

CB Rank

2021115

Distributed.net is a general-purpose distributed computing project website.

Founded

obfuscation

Private

Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic

51-100

distributed.net

Internet

Internet of Things

Software

Key People

David McNett: Co-Founder and President
Past Role: FlightAware, CIO

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Operating Status

Active

Company Type

For Profit

Founders

David McNett, Jeff Lawson

About the Company

distributed.net was the Internet's first general-purpose distributed computing project. Founded in 1997, its network has grown to include thousands of users around the world donating the power of their home computers to academic research and public-interest projects.

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RC5 Project

A distributed computing project that uses volunteer computers to perform brute-force key searches on the RC5 encryption algorithm, aiming to find secret keys by testing all possible keys.

OGR Project

A distributed computing project focused on finding Optimal Golomb Rulers, mathematical constructs with applications in communications and combinatorics, by distributing computational tasks to volunteers.