Free-DC
11-04-2015, 09:43 PM
On 30 October 2015, 03:27:00 UTC, PrimeGrid’s Mega Prime Search found the Mega Prime: 191*2^3548117+1 (http://primes.utm.edu/primes/page.php?id=120499) The prime is 1,068,092 digits long and enters Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database (http://primes.utm.edu/primes) ranked 105th overall. The discovery was made by Roman Azarenko (Roman Azarenko (http://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=419665)) of Russia using an Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1240 v3 @ 3.40GHz with 2GB RAM, running Linux. This computer took about 1 hour 7 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. Roman is a member of the Russia Team (http://www.primegrid.com/team_display.php?teamid=185). The prime was verified on 2 November 2015, 22:02:26 UTC, by Jon Beard (Fuzzy Duck (http://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=62718)) of Vietnam using an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz with 32GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows 10. This computer took about 7 hours 1 minute to complete the primality test using LLR. Jon is a member of the The Knights Who Say Ni! (http://www.primegrid.com/team_display.php?teamid=16) team. For more details, please see the official announcement (http://www.primegrid.com/download/mega-3548117.pdf).
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