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base S914 Megaprime / proven
Science United found a megaprime for base S914.
The prime 2*914^469757+1 has 1.390.926 digits and entered the T5k PrimePages.
It is the first proven base in 2025. 19 Feb 2025, 20:09:06 UTC · Comment

base S820 Megaprime
Kf4ypd, a member of the team Gridcoin found a megaprime for base S820.
The prime 16723*820^431579+1 has 1.257.546 digits and entered the T5k PrimePages. 11 Jan 2025, 21:17:38 UTC · Comment

new TF app testing started
first testing batch:

- 3000 WUs
- 2 max WUs per GPU
- output / app config testing
- 1 credits
- 6h deadline
- 28s per test on a RX5000XT 9 Jan 2025, 13:14:03 UTC · Comment

CRUS goals for 2025 released
We have finished all 2024 goals but this year it's harder.

2025 project goals

Recommended bases and efforts 1 Jan 2025, 10:40:05 UTC · Comment

SRBase - 10 years review
The project has passed the tenth year...

Compared with last years the following process was made:

2014-2015 - 1 base proven, 314 bases unstarted
2015-2016 - 5 bases proven, 297 bases unstarted
2016-2017 - 5 bases proven, 282 bases unstarted
2017-2018 - 1 base proven, 264 bases unstarted
2018-2019 - 6 bases proven, 218 bases unstarted
2019-2020 - 4 bases proven, 120 bases unstarted
2020-2021 - 3 bases proven, 101 bases unstarted
2021-2022 - 0 bases proven, 97 bases unstarted
2022-2023 - 3 bases proven, 69 bases unstarted
2023-2024 - 4 bases proven, 69 bases unstarted
in total - 32 bases proven, 56 bases unstarted

Things went very well for the CRUS project this year. In total 11 bases were proven, 4 of them by BOINC.

At the end of the year, GIMPs decided to change the output file for TF shortly. It now contains a residue to make better comparisons / double checks on different hosts.

Old output:
no factor for M236575483 from 2^69 to 2^70 [mfakto 0.16-beta.2-Win cl_barrett15_71_gs_2]

New output:
{"exponent":236575483, "worktype":"TF", "status":"NF", "bitlo":69, "bithi":70, "rangecomplete":true, "program":{"name":"mfakto", "version":"0.16-beta.2", "subversion":"cl_barrett15_71_gs_2"}, "timestamp":"2024-12-28 14:18:03", "aid":"0E258D8EC77DBB310739E8CC86D50000", "os":{"os": "Windows", "architecture": "x86_64"}}

Therefore, all applications for TF must be updated and the server config changed. Tests will follow soon.

There are still problems with AMD cards 6000+ and latest Intel Arc GPUs for the mfakto application. It will take some time due to a lack of availability to change them.

Thanks to everyone who made this possible! 31 Dec 2024, 11:24:47 UTC · Comment

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