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03-19-17, 01:57 PM
On 18 March 2017, 21:52:24 UTC, PrimeGrid’s Generalized Fermat Prime Search found the Generalized Fermat mega prime:45570624^131072+1 (http://primes.utm.edu/primes/page.php?id=123169)The prime is 1,003,840 digits long and enters Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database (http://primes.utm.edu/primes) ranked 22nd for Generalized Fermat primes and 231st overall.The discovery was made by Vince Splain (yank (http://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=8367)) of The United States using an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 in an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5960X CPU at 3.00GHz with 16GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows 7 Professional. This GPU took about 14 minutes to probable prime (PRP) test with GeneferOCL4. Vince is a member of the US Navy (http://www.primegrid.com/team_display.php?teamid=369) team.The PRP was confirmed prime by an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700K CPU @ 4.20GHz with 16GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows 10 Professional. This computer took about 2 hours 38 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR.For more details, please see the official announcement (http://www.primegrid.com/download/GFN-45570624_131072.pdf).
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