Another PPS Mega Prime!
On 7 January 2015, 1:57:29 UTC, PrimeGrid’s Mega Prime Search found the Mega Prime:245*2^3411973+1The prime is 1,027,109 digits long and enters Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database ranked 107th overall.The discovery was made by Rick Channing (Rick) of the United States using an Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 750 @ 2.67GHz with 4GB RAM running Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium. This computer took about 3 hour 38 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. Rick is a member of the SETI.USA team.The prime was verified on 7 January 2015, 11:33:36 UTC, by John Christy (John Christy) of the United States using an Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31220 @ 3.10GHz with 8GB RAM running Linux. This computer took about 1 hour and 35 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. John is a member of the USA team.For more details, please see the official announcement.

More...