According to the stats page, there have not been any primes found since 2007, despite steady progress (and partnering with PrimeGrid). Is anyone taking bets on when the next one will show up?
Would it speed up the process at all if everyone focused on a specific k value? Idle musings...
Could be. I suppose at this point it's pretty much just letting idle computer cycles do their work and waiting for the automated email saying "A prime has been found". It would be nice if updates on the main page were a bit more frequent, though.
There might be a new update soon when mprime is updated to best support Haswell processors. Who knows. I'm still crunching primes.