netWORK News

I had been using the ecmnet sources for my "netWORK" distributed computing project/team for a while, but due to acquisition and re-organization of the ISP I was hosting it on, that one rather faded out...

I'm pleased to announce that the original people who worked on ecmnet have put up a good website with statistics tracking at:
http://www.loria.fr/~zimmerma/ecmnet/

I've just added the ECMnet project source-files to the CVS repository here. It's on the "ecmnet-src" branch, and is just the /source subdirectory from the source-drops referred to earlier. In future that's likely to become the root directory for the source releases as well. Please ignore the "network-src" product, I didn't get enough sleep and it's been a year or two since I've used CVS... ;)

MFAC is part of the netWORK project on the original site, but as I do not have permission to distribute the sources under open-source license yet, it isn't going to come on Sourceforge at least right away. However, it may still be of interest to open-source circles because of the Linux port I've made, for which http://Lambda.nic.fi/~jsantala/mfac/ holds the AT&T style assembler source-files to arithmetic libraries. Tony Forbes, the original author of the MSDOS program, coordinates at http://www.ltkz.demon.co.uk/ar2/mm61.htm one project for the program. I will be trying to get these sources issued under some open-source license, particularily if there's interest in developing this artihmetic library, and with it. However, maybe GMP is more effective, and we could rewrite the program using it for open-source use?

The old project homepage for ECMnet, part of the netWORK project, is at http://shell.nic.fi/~jsantala/netWORK/ and the current file distributions are at http://shell.nic.fi/~jsantala/netWORK/files/ . I am hoping to be able to move most of these resources over to Sourceforge in near future, but as I'm not entirely sure the package structure is good as it is, I haven't done it yet. Ofcourse, there's really sense in Sourceforging the code only if other developers are going to participate ;) Also, thanks to Tim Charron for writing the original source that I've improved upon, and that he's said is free to distribute with GNU license.