General Information
Major Sites
World-Wide Status
General Information
Major Sites
World-Wide Status
This approach to factoring uses world-wide distributed computing based on computationally enhanced Web servers and is a collaboration between Bellcore, Boston University, Cooperating Systems Corporation, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University and Oxford University. You have just arrived at NPAC which is one of the three initial coordination sites. The other two are at CSC and BU. New stable Major Helper/Coordination Sites will be announced as they appear - chose the one which is geographically closest or treats you best. We will also offer a weekly update of the project's World-Wide Status.
If you are already familiar with this effort, you selected NPAC as your host, and you are eager to join the team and start sieving, or to check your current score in the Hall of Fame, you will jump directly to specific pages of the FAFNER Hamlet at NPAC.
New visitors may find useful our General Information page. We suggest you start from the Foreword by Arjen Lenstra and then explore sections on: Internet Security, RSA Factoring Challenge, recent factoring successes such as RSA129, and the current project and its team, aimed at factoring RSA130. In this Teraflop Challenge, to be presented at Supercomputing '95, we are using the Number Field Sieve factoring algorithm, the Web based world-wide computing paradigm WebWork and its particular instance FAFNER, serving you in this effort.
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