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 > -- *********************************** * Alessandra Forti * * NorthGrid Technical Coordinator * * University of Manchester * ***********************************