PrimeGrid description update

[jmblazek]

Just wanted to update the description of PrimeGrid. It is no longer "trying to recover messages encoded with the md5 algorithm." The old description is a bit out-dated.

From the PrimeGrid (PG) home page:

PrimeGrid is currently running two sub-projects:

* Primegen: generating a public sequential prime number database.
* Twin Prime Search (testing): searching for large twin primes of the form k*2n + 1 and k*2n - 1.

PrimeGrid is running PerlBOINC server software. PerlBOINC is an attempt to implement BOINC server system in Perl programming language.

Twin Prime Search (TPS) was added late November. The n they have chosen guarantees that when it finds a twin prime, it will be a RECORD. So far so good...PG TPS has already tested more k's in 3 weeks than the whole project did in the last 6 months (it was started in April 2006). Still, PG TPS has a very small user base.

Rytis, the creator of PrimeGrid, is also the creator of the PerlBOINC software. From the Riesel Sieve (RS) donation page: "He has provided us with numerous hours of tech support, assistance with our wrapper, and spent the time creating PerlBOINC - help us say Thank You to him!"

Why not say thank you by slipping a few cycles over to PG. Even better, enable test applications through the project preferences page and exclusively run TPS LLR...just like RS LLR.

Currently AMD Users is #1 at RS and #6 at PG. As far as I can tell, Virux-X is running neck and neck as the top PG TPS producer. We could use some more heavy hitters.

p.s. If PG TPS can have a sustained rate of 1G a week (~143M/day), we'd have an 85% chance of finding the RECORD twin prime within 6 months. Right now PG TPS is doing about 150M a week. See this post in the TPS forum: http://www.mersenneforum.org/showpos...0&postcount=11

Thanks for your help.

[NeoGen]

Thanks jmblazek!

With so many projects out there (60+) it gets difficult to keep track of everything. I'm sure Jeff or Vaughan (our admins) will take care of updating the description when they see this post.

[vaughan]

Thanks JMBlazek, modifications have been made.

The new Twin Prime Search work units are very quick to process on my P4s.

[PoorBoy]

We're having a mini heat wave here today and my PC's are all running too hot with the Protein WU's so I switched a lot of them over to Prime Grid for today anyway where they run 5c to 10c cooler ...

[jmblazek]

WOW! That was quick. Thanks...every little bit helps.

Yes, the WUs are very quick...ranging from 1 to 4 minutes depending on CPU.

p.s. I downloaded pi-segment and am running that as well.

p.p.s.

We could use some more heavy hitters.

Y'all definitely are some "heavy hitters!"

[Lagu]

jmblazek!

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