SRBase - Top 5000 prime number found

parejan (62)in #gridcoin • 6 years ago (edited)

SRBase is a mathematical research project that uses Internet-connected computers trying to solve Sierpinski / Riesel Bases up to 1030. The project is in collaboration with the Mersenne CRUS project. SRBase uses BOINC to distribute work-units to linked computers and has currently 409 active participants to solve this challenge.

Team Gridcoin is supporting this project as well and has found on 24th of May the last prime for base R579 (and as such it is proven). The discovery was made by JD2K from the United States.

The prime 104x579^222402-1 has 614,428 digits and entered the TOP5000 in Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database ranked 1233th overall, with the details of the prime here.

Congratulations to JD2K in finding this prime number and another succes story for team Gridcoin in directly contributing to science.

The confirmation on the project forum can be found here.

Gridcoin is an open source cryptocurrency (Ticker: GRC) which securely rewards volunteer computing performed upon the BOINC platform in a decentralized manner on top of proof of stake.

BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) is a distributed Internet platform launched beginning of 2002 and rewards participants with credits for performed work. BOINC is an application available for multiple Operating Systems and utilises the unused CPU and GPU cycles on computers to perform scientific work.