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02-28-2016, 04:15 PM
On 25 February 2016, 02:26:37 UTC, PrimeGrid’s Generalized Fermat Prime Search found the Generalized Fermat mega prime:43165206^131072+1 (https://primes.utm.edu/primes/page.php?id=121290)The prime is 1,000,753 digits long and enters Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database (http://primes.utm.edu/primes) ranked 15th for Generalized Fermat primes and 154th overall.The discovery was made by Alen Kecic (Freezing (http://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=291144)) of Germany using an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti in an Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz with 8GB RAM, running Windows 7 Professional. This GPU took 52 minutes to probable prime (PRP) test with GeneferOCL2. Alen is a member of the SETI.Germany (http://www.primegrid.com/team_display.php?teamid=11) team.The prime was verified on 26 February 2016, 02:40:45 UTC by [CSF] Joris Degraide (http://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=439588) of France using an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M in an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz with 16GB RAM, running Windows 7 Ultimate. This GPU took 48 minutes to probable prime (PRP) test with GeneferOCL2. [CSF] Joris Degraide is a member of the CRUNCHERS SANS FRONTIERES (http://www.primegrid.com/team_display.php?teamid=8027) team.For more details, please see the official announcement (http://www.primegrid.com/download/GFN-43165206_131072.pdf).
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