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Welcome to another year of the PrimeGrid Challenge Series! The good news this year is that there are likely to be at least two challenges where we can use GPUs. The bad news is they've hardly said anything about any of the challenges!
But they're starting us off with the best challenge of the year for finding primes, the Year of the Rabbit Challenge. Edit: They finally posted a race thread. It will start February 3 at 18:00 UTC and run for three days.
What you need:
What won't help (but won't hurt either):
This challenge starts February 3, the Chinese New Year. Work not downloaded and uploaded within the challenge will not be counted. Should you not be able to be in front of one or more computers at that time, just set their queue level very low (0.01 days). This also makes it more likely that you will be a prime finder rather than a double-checker.
Welcome and good luck to all! Now let's all...
...hop to it!
But they're starting us off with the best challenge of the year for finding primes, the Year of the Rabbit Challenge. Edit: They finally posted a race thread. It will start February 3 at 18:00 UTC and run for three days.
What you need:
- One or more fast x86 processors. (Even slow ones will do!)
- Windows, Linux, or MacOS 10.4+. (Linux may be up to 10% faster, but shouldn't be if they get the new wrapper uploaded in time.)
- BOINC, attached to PrimeGrid (http://www.primegrid.com/).
- Your PrimeGrid Preferences with only "Proth Prime Search (LLR)" selected in the Projects section.
What won't help (but won't hurt either):
- A 64-bit OS.
- A large amount of RAM.
- Any video cards. (I tried to get LLRCuda working, but it just won't handle these numbers. Sorry. )
This challenge starts February 3, the Chinese New Year. Work not downloaded and uploaded within the challenge will not be counted. Should you not be able to be in front of one or more computers at that time, just set their queue level very low (0.01 days). This also makes it more likely that you will be a prime finder rather than a double-checker.
Welcome and good luck to all! Now let's all...
...hop to it!
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