AMDave
06-30-2014, 08:11 AM
And Another New MEGA prime found!
On 10 June 2014 20:37:03 UTC, PrimeGrid’s Mega Prime Search, through PRPNet, found the Mega Prime: 35*2^3570777+1 (http://primes.utm.edu/primes/page.php?id=118004)The prime is 1,074,913 digits long and enters Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database (http://primes.utm.edu/primes) ranked 66th overall.The discovery was made by Robert Lacroix (composite) of Canada using an Intel(R) Xeon E5-2697 @ 2.7 GHz with 64GB RAM running Linux. This computer took about 1 hour 40 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR.For more details, please see the official announcement (http://www.primegrid.com/download/mega-3570777.pdf).
More... (http://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=5796)
On 10 June 2014 20:37:03 UTC, PrimeGrid’s Mega Prime Search, through PRPNet, found the Mega Prime: 35*2^3570777+1 (http://primes.utm.edu/primes/page.php?id=118004)The prime is 1,074,913 digits long and enters Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database (http://primes.utm.edu/primes) ranked 66th overall.The discovery was made by Robert Lacroix (composite) of Canada using an Intel(R) Xeon E5-2697 @ 2.7 GHz with 64GB RAM running Linux. This computer took about 1 hour 40 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR.For more details, please see the official announcement (http://www.primegrid.com/download/mega-3570777.pdf).
More... (http://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=5796)