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We're upgrading to new servers sometime within the next week. With minimal warning, all PrimeGrid servers will be down for several hours. Discord, of course, will remain available. Discussion and more information will be available on Discord as well as on the the forums. The forums will be...

for some important updates. This shouldnt take more than 20min. The server is not available at this time. Continue reading...

On September 26th, due to a firmware update at the data centre where our servers reside, users will be temporarily unable to upload work or get new work. Continue reading...

The MCM team’s analysis has shown that ovarian cancer results were dishomogeneous. We will begin running additional ovarian work units starting September 25th. Continue reading...

After a while, let me announce our paper based on the Asteroids@home project. It was published last year in the Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/link_gateway/2022FrASS...909771D/PUB_HTML. We used ATLAS photometry and its bootstrap samples to derive...

After a lot of discussion, some changes have been made in the projects that are closing. PPS-MEGA is shutting down on October 19th, while PPSE will continue running to its natural end at one million digits. More details can be found on the forum. Continue reading...

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The LHC@home BOINC servers will be degraded on Monday 18th of September due to a database upgrade. BOINC clients are likely to generate errors when trying to download or upload tomorrow morning. Thanks for your contributions and happy crunching! Continue reading...

Hi everyone, We are proud to announce our new OpenCL applications for AMD GPUs! Development process took some time but we finally managed to build it. There are still many rough edges to be polished but thanks to you guys and to your feedback we'll continue to improve the code. Linux...

The Rosetta application has been updated to include fixes to the GALigandDock protocol. Please report any issues in the discussion thread here: https://ralph.bakerlab.org/forum_thread.php?id=906 Continue reading...

- Sierpinski Base app - test_prime1 WUs batch - PRST v10 for linux and windows only - 4h deadline - native app, no wrapper - 0.5 credits Continue reading...

We continue our work on characterizing lung cancer biomarkers identified in the MCM1 project. This update focuses on ADH6, a gene associated with smoking status and lung cancer prognosis. Continue reading...

We recently took a look at the projects that we are running and decided to make some changes. For more information, and discussion, see this thread: PPS-Sieve, PPSE, GFN-15, SGS, and AP27 are shutting down. Continue reading...

We have started testing new applications for SRBase on a BOINC test server, which are already used at PG, i.e. PRST is intended to replace llr2. Since there are still some code changes being made, everything is moving around a bit. What are the advantages of the application? - no more...

The seventh challenge of the 2023 Series will be a 10-day challenge celebrating World Peace Day, also known as the International Day of Peace, an annual United Nations holiday observed on September 21st. The challenge will be offered on the SOB-LLR application, beginning 13 September 11:00 UTC...

Dear participants, processing of the square # 24 is fully completed! The square: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B 1 2 0 4 5 3 8 9 A B 6 7 2 0 1 5 3 4 A B 6 7 8 9 8 A 6 B 7 9 2 4 0 5 1 3 A 6 8 7 9 B 0 5 1 3 2 4 9 B 7 6 8 A 4 0 5 1 3 2 5 3 4 2 0 1 7 8 9 A B 6 4 5 3 1 2 0 B 6 7 8 9 A B 7 9 8 A 6 5 1 3 2 4...

The 7.24.1 version of the BOINC client software has been released for Windows, Mac, and Android. Download it here. Release notes are here. Thanks to everyone who contributed to developing and testing this release. Continue reading...

The PPS Sieve has advanced well beyond the searches that use the sieve, and it will be many years before more sieving is needed. We are therefore suspending the PPS sieve. The CPU apps will be removed 30 days from now, on October 4th. The GPU apps will be removed, and the sieve fully suspended...

On 5 July 2023, 17:48:23 UTC, PrimeGrid's 321 Prime Search found the Mega Prime: 3*2^20928756-1 The prime is 6,300,184 digits long and will enter Chris Caldwell's “The Largest Known Primes Database” ranked 19th overall. This is the largest known prime for the 3*2^n-1 form. The discovery was made...

Check out a new video and paper from The Ramanujan Machine, which has used BOINC to discover new expressions for fundamental mathematical constants. Continue reading...