About
PrimeGrid's primary goal is to advance mathematics by enabling everyday computer users to contribute their system's processing power towards prime finding. By simply
downloading and installing BOINC and attaching to the PrimeGrid project,
participants can choose from a variety of prime forms to search. With a little patience, you may find a large or even record
breaking prime and enter into Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database with a multi-million digit prime!
PrimeGrid's secondary goal is to provide relevant educational materials about primes. Additionally, we wish to contribute to the
field of mathematics.
Lastly, primes play a central role in the cryptographic systems which are used for computer security. Through the study of prime
numbers it can be shown how much processing is required to crack an encryption code and thus to determine whether current
security schemes are sufficiently secure. PrimeGrid is currently running several sub-projects:
- 321 Prime Search: searching for
mega primes of the form 3·2n±1.
- Cullen-Woodall Search: searching for
mega primes of forms n·2n+1 and
n·2n−1.
- Generalized Cullen-Woodall Search: searching for mega primes of forms n·bn+1 and
n·bn−1 where n + 2 > b.
- Extended Sierpinski Problem: helping solve the Extended Sierpinski Problem.
- Generalized Fermat Prime Search: searching for
megaprimes of the form b2n+1.
- Prime Sierpinski Project: helping the Prime Sierpinski Project solve the Prime Sierpinski Problem.
- Proth Prime Search: searching for primes of the form k·2n+1.
- Fermat Divisor Search: a subset of the Proth Prime Search specificically searching for divisors of
Fermat numbers.
- Seventeen or Bust: helping to solve the Sierpinski Problem.
- Sierpinski/Riesel Base 5: helping to solve the Sierpinski/Riesel Base 5 Problem.
- Sophie Germain Prime Search: searching for primes p and 2p+1.
- The Riesel problem: helping to solve the Riesel Problem.
- AP27 Search: searching for record length arithmetic progressions of primes.
Recent Significant Primes
On 9 August 2022, 11:56:02 UTC, PrimeGrid's Generalized Fermat Prime Search found the Mega Prime
19517341048576+1
The prime is 6,595,985 digits long and enters Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database
ranked 1 st for Generalized Fermat primes and 13 th overall. This is the second-largest prime found by PrimeGrid, and the second-largest non-Mersenne prime.
The discovery was made by Kazuya Tanaka ( apophise@jisaku) of Japan using an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti in an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9700K CPU @ 3.60GHz with 64GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows 10 Professional x64 Edition.
This computer took about 1 hour, 2 minutes to complete the probable prime (PRP) test using GeneferOCL5. Kazuya Tanaka is a member of Team 2ch.
The prime was verified on 10 August 2022, 17:39:14 UTC by Jens Katzur ( Landjunge) of Germany using an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 in an Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5675 @ 3.07GHz with 40GB RAM, running Linux Ubuntu.
This computer took about 1 hour, 36 minutes to complete the probable prime (PRP) test using GeneferOCL5. Jens Katzur is a member of Planet 3DNow!.
The PRP was confirmed prime on 11 August 2022 by an AMD Ryzen 9 5950X @3.4GHz, running Linux Mint. This computer took about 51 hours, 52 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR2.
For more information, please see the Official Announcement.
On 19 June 2022, 04:26:15 UTC, PrimeGrid's Sierpinski/Riesel Base 5 Prime Search found the Mega Prime
63838·53887851-1
The prime is 2,717,497 digits long and enters Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database
ranked 99 th overall. 58 k's now remain in the Riesel Base 5 Problem.
The discovery was made by Scott Lee ( freestman) of China using an AMD Ryzen 5 2600X Six-Core Processor with 32GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows 11 Professional x64 Edition.
This computer took about 4 hours, 34 minutes to complete the PRP test using LLR2. Scott is a member of the Chinese Dream team.
The prime was verified on 19 June 2022, 22:29 UTC, by an Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-9100F CPU @ 3.60GHz with 16GB RAM, running Linux. This computer took about 11 hours and 57 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR2.
For more information, please see the Official Announcement.
On 15 May 2022, 17:29:48 UTC, PrimeGrid's Generalized Fermat Prime Search found the Mega Prime
4896418524288+1
The prime is 3,507,424 digits long and enters Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database
ranked 3 rd for Generalized Fermat primes and 97 th overall.
The discovery was made by Tom Greer ( tng) of the United States using an GeForce RTX 3060 in an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700 CPU @ 3.40GHz with 24GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows 10 Core x64 Edition.
This GPU took about 1 hour, 1 minute to complete the probable prime (PRP) test using GeneferOCL2. Tom Greer is a member of Antarctic Crunchers.
The prime was verified on 16 May 2022, 19:12:23 UTC, by Albert Pastuszka ( User B@P) of Poland using a GeForce GTX 750 in an AMD Athlon(tm) II X3 445 Processor with 6GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows 10 Professional x64 Edition.
This computer took about 6 hours, 46 minutes to complete the probable prime (PRP) test using GeneferOCL2. Albert Pastuszka is a member of BOINC@Poland.
The PRP was confirmed prime by an AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor with 4GB RAM, running Linux Ubuntu. This computer took about 22 hours, 17 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR.
For more information, please see the Official Announcement.
Other significant primes
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News 
A Prime Chinese New Year Challenge starts January 22, 12:00 UTC
Welcome to 2023! And just days away, on Jan. 22, in the Lunar Chinese calendar: the year 4721. What do you know, a prime number!
The first challenge of the 2023 PrimeGrid Challenge Series will be a 3-day challenge on the PPS-MEGA and GFN-17 MEGA applications, beginning 22 January 12:00 UTC and ending 25 January 12:00 UTC. To participate in the Challenge, please select only the Proth Mega Prime Search (LLR) and Generalized Fermat Prime Search n=17 projects in your PrimeGrid preferences section.
Inquiries? Ideas? Impressions? Interjections? Inferences? Join the discussion at https://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=10115&nowrap=true#159335
21 Jan 2023 | 6:11:38 UTC
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PrimeGrid now supports Intel ARC GPU apps and native Apple M1/M2 CPU and GPU apps
Effective immediately, PrimeGrid has apps for the following sub-projects for the new hardware:
Native Apple M1/M2 ARM CPU apps are available on GFN-17 through GFN-22.
Native M1/M2 GPU apps are available on GFN-16 through GFN-22 as well as DYFL.
Intel ARC GPU apps are available on GFN-16 through GFN-22 as well as DYFL.
Discussion about the new apps can be found on our Discord server, or in this forum thread.
5 Dec 2022 | 22:00:06 UTC
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G.I.F.P.S. Challenge starts December 7th!
For the ninth and final challenge of the 2022 Series, we want to end the year BIG. Like, World Record big. In effort to top GIMPS's 24,000,000 digit behemoth, we're running a 10-day challenge on the DYFL subproject, as well as on GFN-21 and GFN-22. The challenge is beginning 07 December 05:00 UTC and ending 17 December 05:00 UTC.
To participate in the Challenge, please select only the Do You Feel Lucky? (DYFL), Generalized Fermat Prime Search (n=21), and Generalized Fermat Prime Search (n=22) projects on your PrimeGrid preferences page.
Nonplussed? Nostalgic? Nihilistic? Nervous? Newly inspired? Join the discussion at https://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=10055&nowrap=true#158079
5 Dec 2022 | 5:24:23 UTC
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WW Project to End Soon
Within the next month or two, the WW project will reach the limit of the software, and the project will shut down.
Details and discussion can be found here.
14 Nov 2022 | 6:35:59 UTC
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Prime Meridian Day Challenge starts November 1st
The eighth challenge of the 2022 Series will be a 10-day challenge celebrating the 1884 international agreement to standardize the official 0° longitude -- AKA the Prime Meridian! The challenge will be offered on the CUL-LLR and WOO-LLR applications, beginning 01 November 05:00 UTC and ending 11 November 05:00 UTC.
To participate in the Challenge, please select only the Cullen Prime Search (LLR) and Woodall Prime Search (LLR) projects in your PrimeGrid preferences section.
Dilemmas? Dramas? Diversions? Drollery? Join the discussion at https://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=10024&nowrap=true#157550
30 Oct 2022 | 4:36:56 UTC
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Newly reported primes(Mega-primes are in bold.)
133096042^131072+1 (ID4); 133180238^131072+1 (EA6LE); 131412078^131072+1 (Pokey); 131112524^131072+1 (tng); 131820886^131072+1 (Icecold); 131370186^131072+1 (Jason Jung); 7676761890495*2^1290000-1 (DannyBoy); 330015282^32768+1 (Penguin); 130907540^131072+1 (pschoefer); 131309874^131072+1 (Icecold); 130051980^131072+1 (xii5ku); 130593462^131072+1 (zunewantan); 330131790^32768+1 (teppot); 330033660^32768+1 (Penguin); 130518578^131072+1 (RoKro); 130198372^131072+1 (parsnip soup in a clay bowl); 130148002^131072+1 (vaughan); 2727*2^3449326+1 (meso@Mayoineko); 2877*2^3449311+1 (valterc); 7507*2^3448920+1 (JayPi) Top Crunchers:Top participants by RAC | Top teams by RAC |
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