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Started by Cruncher Pete, May 12, 2009, 12:31:21 PM

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Cruncher Pete

From PrimeGrid News Archive:

11 May 09:

We have released first PrimeGrid application for Mac OS X, Arithmetic Progression of 26 Primes Search (AP26). Mac OS X 10.3 running on PPC, 10.4 running on Intel and 64bit 10.5 running on Intel are supported.
Thanks to Iain Bethune for compiling the apps.

Cruncher Pete

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From PrimeGrid News Archive:

17 May 09:

We are going to have a one to two hour downtime tomorrow, May 18, at about 12:00 GMT, because the servers have to be moved to a different rack as the datacenter is upgrading their infrastructure.

Note form Cruncher Pete: 12:00GMT on May 18 equates to 10:00 E.S.T on 19 May 09.  This will also effect BOINCStats as they are co-located in the same building.

BF

From the Prime Grid News Feed:

2009-06-07 06:30 UTC

PrimeGrid's Birthday/Summer Solstice Challenge

PrimeGrid's Challenge series continues with the "Birthday/Summer Solstice Challenge". A 9 day Challenge is being offered on the Prime Sierpinski Problem (LLR) application. We are celebrating PrimeGrid's 4th birthday on 12 June...culminating 21 June on the Summer Solstice. It seems fitting that the sun will shine the longest for the project with the longest WU.

For more information, please see this forum post.

BF

From the Prime Grid news feed:

PrimeGrid's Birthday/Summer Solstice Challenge

Thursday, 11 Jun 2009 03:45:00 GMT

Just over 24 hours until the start of PrimeGrid's "Birthday/Summer Solstice Challenge". A 9 day Challenge is being offered on the Prime Sierpinski Problem (LLR) application. Long Challenge, long WU's, but the rewards are greater...250 Challenge points goes to the winner and should a prime be found, it will be a Mega Prime.

For more information, please see this forum post.

BF

From the Prime Grid news feed:

GIMPS does it again!!!

Saturday, 13 Jun 2009 04:20:00 GMT

Congratulations to The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS)! On April 12th, Odd Magnar Strindmo of Norway discovered the 47th known Mersenne prime, 2^42,643,801-1. It is the second largest known prime at 12,837,064 digits, only 141,125 digits smaller than the Mersenne prime found last August. The prime was independently verified June 12th.For more information, please visit the GIMPS site. Again, congratulations!!!

BF

From the PrimeGrid news feed:

The sieves have been Mac'd out!

Monday 15 June 2009 03:25:00 GMT

321, PPS, and PSP sieves now have application support for Mac OS X 10.4 running on Intel and 10.5 running on 64bit Intel. PPS sieve also offers application support for Mac OS X 10.3 running on PPC.


BF

From the PrimeGrid news feed:

New Top Host!

Saturday, 20 Jun 2009 02:05:00 GMT

Congratulations to Worldwide Center of Mathematics, owner of the new top host at PrimeGrid. While this position has changed many times in the past, what makes this occasion unique is that this is the first time the top host is a Mac!!!EDIT: The above is in terms of RAC. In terms of total credit, UL1 holds a commanding lead of over 5M cobblestones with this host.

BF

From the PrimeGrid news feed:

Record AP24 Found


Posted: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:50:00 GMT

PrimeGrid has found a record AP24 (Arithmetic Progression of 24 primes). It is the largest known AP24. It has an ending term of 60312982868878297 surpassing the old record of 25490711550130537. The finder is (AFXTBA Pitheque) of France. He is a member of the L'Alliance Francophone team. The progression is written as 14992521666441877+8832442*23#*n for n=0..23. It was found in the AP26 Search.For more details on this find and the AP26 search, please see this forum post.


BF

From the PrimeGrid news feed:

AP26 application available for Solaris

Posted: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:30:00 GMT

We have released a version of AP26 application for 64bit Solaris (on AMD x86_64 or Intel EM64T CPUs, platform name x86_64-pc-solaris). This is our first application for this platform, which also makes AP26 an application that runs on the most platforms. Thanks to Gerrit Slomma for building the app! Psst... the PS3 version is coming ;)


BF

From the PrimeGrid news feed:

New AP24 Found

Posted: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:45:00 GMT

PrimeGrid has found a new AP24 (Arithmetic Progression of 24 primes). The finder is PaweÅ, FeruÅ› (mindc) of Poland. He is a member of the BOINC@Poland team. The progression is written as 5531900872160491+9383796*23#*n for n=0..23. It was found in the AP26 Search.

For more details on this find and the AP26 search, please see this forum post.

BF

From the PrimeGrid news feed:

Record AP24 Found

Friday, 10 Jul 2009 14:15:00 GMT

PrimeGrid has found a record AP24 (Arithmetic Progression of 24 primes). It is the AP24 with smallest known start. It has a starting term of 39421708111691 decreasing the old record of 167806194923077. The finder is Mark Codding (Narwhal) of the United States. He is a member of Team Picard. The progression is written as 39421708111691+9740894*23#*n for n=0..23. It was found in the AP26 Search.For more details on this find and the AP26 search, please see this forum post.


BF

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From the PrimeGrid news feed:

The New Moon Challenge

Tuesday, 14 Jul 2009 18:25:00 GMT

PrimeGrid's Challenge Series continues with the New Moon Challenge. Please come join us in ushering in July's New Moon along with a new project to the Challenge Series. A 24 hour (21 July - 22 July) Challenge is being offered on PrimeGrid's AP26 (Arithmetic Progression of 26 primes) application. Builds are available for Linux, Mac, Windows, PS3, & Solaris. For more information, please see this forum thread.

P.S. Also, the "most significant" Solar Eclipse this century is occuring on 22 July. :) See forum thread for more details.

BF

From the PrimeGrid news feed:

New AP24 Found

Saturday, 18 Jul 2009 02:05:00 GMT

PrimeGrid has found a new AP24 (Arithmetic Progression of 24 primes). The finder is Carsten Hartwig (SG Arsenic) of the United Kingdom. He is a member of the SETI.Germany team. The progression is written as 19516186145019209+313705*23#*n for n=0..23. It was found in the AP26 Search.

For more details on this find and the AP26 search, please see this forum post.

BF

From the PrimeGrid news feed:

PlayStation3 application

Saturday, 18 Jul 2009 18:35:00 GMT

We now have AP26 application for PlayStation 3. You may wish to check the forum thread in order to get it running at full speed. Thanks to mfl0p.

BF

From the PrimeGrid news feed:

Follow PrimeGrid on Twitter

Saturday, 18 Jul 2009 18:30:00 GMT

For those of you using Twitter, you can now follow PrimeGrid and watch the progress of recent findings in the AP26 Search. PrimeGrid Twitter on Web: http://www.twitter.com/primegrid. Thanks to Lexs for implementing the updates script.