Reading the published paper on this Mersenne number reveals some significant details: http://physics.fullerton.edu/gchilders/M1061.pdf
"The total computational effort expended on sieving was approximately 3 CPU-centuries and yielded 671, 385, 523 unique relations."
Kudos to the thousand or so DC volunteers as mentioned in the paper.
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