DIMES Client For Linux Released

10 Aug, 2005 at 8:23pm ET Article published in Tech

The first DIMES client for Linux was released today. DIMES is a distributed scientific research project, not dissimilar to Folding@Home, aimed to study the structure and topology of the Internet.

Download: [b]DIMES Client[/b] (Linux) (4.42MB)

“How does the Internet look like? How does it evolve?”

Submitted by: TheSmJ

Source: www.cd.huji.ac.il

Comments

10 Aug 2005 ~ 9:53pm TheSmJ I've been unable to get it working. I beleive it's because I either installed ANT wrong, or you need a GUI installed to run it.
11 Aug 2005 ~ 4:27am Enverex What makes DIMES worth it anyway? I've noticed some people here have adopted it but... what is the point?
11 Aug 2005 ~ 8:37am GHoosdum It has an amazing memory leak in the client that allows you to reboot your PC more often, and test the boundaries of Windows' memory management... at least, that's why I would use it. I think those other guys cure athlete's foot with it or something.
11 Aug 2005 ~ 8:48am mmonnin Hehe they fixed the bad memory leak on the server side. At least its not as bad anymore.