PrimeGrid: Its another PPS Mega Prime!

On 8 October 2016, 05:09:38 UTC, PrimeGrid’s PPS Mega Prime Search project found the Mega Prime: 415*2^3559614+1 The prime is 1,071,554 digits long and will enter Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database ranked 134th overall. The discovery was made by Randall Scalise (Randall J. Scalise) of the United States using an Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590 CPU @ 3.30GHz with 8GB RAM, running Linux. This computer took about 1 hour 26 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. The prime was verified on 8 October 2016, 06:43:05 UTC by Alexander Falk (Alexander Falk) of the United States using an Intel(R) Xeon(TM) X5680 CPU @ 3.33GHz with 8GB RAM, running Linux. This computer took about 2 hours 57 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. Alexander is a member of The Knights Who Say Ni! team. For more details, please see the official announcement.

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