Hi
I have contacted the VO seeking a confirmation/explanation of what this is about.
Jeremy
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From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes on behalf of Alessandra Forti
Sent: Wed 10/31/2007 11:15 AM
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Subject: Re: biomed jobs
I'm sure there is another explanation for this. If you look on google
for GNFS+biomed you'll find a lot of references to GNFS60 blood cells or
cell-lines. Maybe they are doing some simulation concerning those cells.
We should ask...
cheers
alessandra
Kostas Georgiou wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know what the gnfs-lasieve program that biomed is running?
> With a quick look I found http://www.math.ttu.edu/~cmonico/software/ggnfs/
> which suggests that they are running some factorization code probably
> trying to break the RSA-768 challenge (it has a $50K reward afterall).
>
> Cheers,
> Kostas
>
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