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01-17-17, 01:32 PM
On 16 January 2017, 04:34:40 UTC, PrimeGrid’s PPS Mega Prime Search project found the Mega Prime: 543*2^3351686+1 (http://primes.utm.edu/primes/page.php?id=122748) The prime is 1,008,961 digits long and will enter Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database (http://primes.utm.edu/primes) ranked 201st overall. The discovery was made by Simon Rawles (rawles (http://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=415720)) of the United Kingdom using an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5960X CPU @ 3.00GHz with 32GB RAM, running Linux. This computer took about 56 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. The prime was verified on 16 January 2017, 05:06:22 UTC by Ed Goforth (BlisteringSheep (http://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=3762)) of Saint Kitts and Nevis using an Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v3 @ 2.40GHz with 64GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2. This computer took about 1 hour 35 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. Ed is a member of the Christians (http://www.primegrid.com/team_display.php?teamid=2206) team. For more details, please see the official announcement (http://www.primegrid.com/download/mega-3351686.pdf).
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