From: Jesper Linnet & Henrik Schulz Newsgroups: comp.parallel Subject: Help us solve the largest QKP in the world Date: 11 Jun 1999 21:27:49 GMT Organization: UNI2 Internet Kunde Approved: bigrigg@cs.cmu.edu Message-Id: <7jrv0l$7rs$1@goldenapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu> Originator: bigrigg@ux6.sp.cs.cmu.edu Xref: ukc comp.parallel:15669 Dear Sir/Madam We are trying to solve the largest QKP (Quadratic Knapsack Problem) in the world as part of our master thesis. To do this we need your help! You can help us by going to the home page http://www.lauritz.dk:8080/. As long as you=92re staying there you=92ll be helping in solving this huge problem. And since we use a Java applet in your browser to solve the problem we can't damage you computer in any way. We hope you will stay on our home page as long as possible and that you will make your computer participate in the calculations when you are not using it yourself, for example at night or in the weekends. To see how you are doing compared to other computers helping us find a solution, we've made a calculation toplist. We hope that you would like to be no. 1 on this list! About the system Our system - VIC (Virtual Internet Computer) - is a meta computer for globally distributed computations over the Internet. In our experiment we want to find a solution to a large QKP, but our system can find solutions to all tree-structured problems which do not have any dependencies. Further details can be found on our home page. If it=92s of any interest to you we=92ll release our Java code and UML drawings very soon. See our home page for further information. About us We are studying Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark (Datalogisk Institut ved K=F8benhavns Universitet, - DIKU). If you have problems or questions related to this project don't hesitate to write distjava@imm.dtu.dk. Henrik Schulz and Jesper Linnet -- Articles to bigrigg+parallel@cs.cmu.edu (Admin: bigrigg@cs.cmu.edu) Archive: http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/internet/usenet/comp.parallel