Project Overview

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Project Summary

Hunt for giant primes.
Make mathematical history.
primecrunch is a distributed search for large Riesel primes. A focused frontier where your contribution actually matters. Download the lightweight client, donate spare compute, and you could be the one to find the next record-breaking prime.

Connecting to Project

The project's Home Page is located at:  https://primecrunch.com/

To download the software go to :  https://primecrunch.com/download

Your profile is at: https://primecrunch.com/profile/USER NAME

Project Conversations and News

The Project Forum is at  https://primecrunch.com/forum

The Project blog is located at:  https://primecrunch.com/blog

Platform Statistics

The Overall Statistics for the project are at https://primecrunch.com/stats

Top Primes Found:  https://primecrunch.com/top-primes

To see your jobs running:  https://primecrunch.com/jobs 

NOTE:  To limit the number od cores that run the application use ./crunch -p 2 in Linux and just crunch.exe -p 2 in Windows to use two cores. This lets you contribute without noticeably impacting other work on the machine.

For all the following you need to be in the folder that crunch is in to run the command.

You can run in the background so you do not need to keep the cmd window open:
Windows: In CMD window:  start /B crunch.exe options from below
To stop it after:  taskkill /IM crunch.exe /F

Ubuntu/Linux: In a Terminal window: ./crunch &
(The terminal will output a job number and a Process ID (PID) (e.g., [1] 28453).)
To stop later: kill PID Number. like kill 28453

Your Attached Machines:  https://primecrunch.com/machines

There is a lot of information on the web site.

Team Name

I am waiting to create a Team as I need to complete one peta-op of lifetime work to create a Team.

Team Name:  BOINC-AUSTRALIA

Team Position:  https://primecrunch.com/teams


Extended Info for adventurous Users.

when you start the application these are the current options:

Usage of crunch:
  -I duration
        result reporting interval; drain pending results then pause for this duration, negative to disable (e.g. 30s, 5m; 0 = report immediately)

  -U    run update once now and exit (no restart loop)

  -b int
        number of work units to buffer

  -c string
        sets and alternative working directory (default "C:\\Users\\USER\\.crunch")

  -d    prevents further downloads but downloaded units will be crunched

  -l string
        log level: debug, info, warn, error (default "info")

  -p int
        number of processes to run parallel (default 6)

  -r duration
        progress report interval; minimum 1m, negative to disable (e.g. 5m, 30s rounds up to 1m) (default 5m0s)

  -s string
        set an alternate work server (default "https://api.primecrunch.com/v2")

  -tui
        enable the rich terminal dashboard (default true; set -tui=false to disable) (default true)

  -u    enable periodic update checks (default true; set -u=false to disable) (default true)

  -v    prints version and exits