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Luke Richards
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Message 116326 - Posted: 22 Mar 2018 | 20:20:20 UTC

Hi all,

I'm an amateur mathematician with a big interest in prime numbers - I've been posting a bit on the Mersenne Forum over the past few months. I was wondering what method/algorithm is used on PrimeGrid projects? Is it a simple case of trial factoring each potential prime up to a certain limit or is there anything more sophisticated about it?

Thanks :)

Luke

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Discovered 1 mega prime321 LLR Ruby: Earned 2,000,000 credits (2,671,514)Cullen LLR Turquoise: Earned 5,000,000 credits (5,031,868)ESP LLR Turquoise: Earned 5,000,000 credits (5,064,082)Generalized Cullen/Woodall LLR Turquoise: Earned 5,000,000 credits (5,038,750)PPS LLR Turquoise: Earned 5,000,000 credits (5,000,220)PSP LLR Turquoise: Earned 5,000,000 credits (7,639,762)SoB LLR Sapphire: Earned 20,000,000 credits (42,604,648)SR5 LLR Jade: Earned 10,000,000 credits (11,826,728)SGS LLR Ruby: Earned 2,000,000 credits (2,069,865)TRP LLR Ruby: Earned 2,000,000 credits (2,291,092)Woodall LLR Turquoise: Earned 5,000,000 credits (5,046,412)321 Sieve Jade: Earned 10,000,000 credits (10,032,608)Cullen/Woodall Sieve (suspended) Ruby: Earned 2,000,000 credits (4,002,919)Generalized Cullen/Woodall Sieve (suspended) Sapphire: Earned 20,000,000 credits (20,005,451)PPS Sieve Emerald: Earned 50,000,000 credits (52,042,965)Sierpinski (ESP/PSP/SoB) Sieve (suspended) Ruby: Earned 2,000,000 credits (2,341,676)TRP Sieve (suspended) Ruby: Earned 2,000,000 credits (2,070,804)AP 26/27 Jade: Earned 10,000,000 credits (10,742,251)GFN Emerald: Earned 50,000,000 credits (50,000,251)PSA Double Gold: Earned 500,000,000 credits (728,547,693)
Message 116336 - Posted: 23 Mar 2018 | 0:50:21 UTC

The only software someone at PrimeGrid actually writes are the BOINC wrappers for primality and sieving programs that require them. Those wrappers are comparatively simple. As far as the code that actually does the heavy lifting, you might want to look at the Source code repositories thread where we list the locations of all the source code that we know of.

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Message 116341 - Posted: 23 Mar 2018 | 6:41:42 UTC - in response to Message 116326.
Last modified: 23 Mar 2018 | 6:41:58 UTC

Hi all,

I'm an amateur mathematician with a big interest in prime numbers - I've been posting a bit on the Mersenne Forum over the past few months. I was wondering what method/algorithm is used on PrimeGrid projects? Is it a simple case of trial factoring each potential prime up to a certain limit or is there anything more sophisticated about it?

Thanks :)

Luke

Also check out
http://primegrid.wikia.com/wiki/Fixed-N_sieve
http://primegrid.wikia.com/wiki/Fixed-K_sieve

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Message 116345 - Posted: 23 Mar 2018 | 9:53:39 UTC

Hi Luke,

I wrote an overview paper here which should answer some of your questions, although it's a bit dated now.

- Iain
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Message 116348 - Posted: 23 Mar 2018 | 11:46:46 UTC

Thanks all, that's very useful. :)

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