Just saw this on primegrid message board.
Michael GoetzProject
Volunteer moderator
Project scientist
If we build it, will they come?
We have an option to start running a GPU project on BOINC which will have very short GPU tasks -- on my GTX 580, the tasks run in a bit under a minute.
This project can find primes, but the primes are too small to be eligible for the Top 5000 list. To be clear: primes found on this project will never be reported to the Top 5000 primes list. The primes will, however, show up in PrimeGrid's prime database.
This project (GFN32768) is currently running on PRPnet, but without the GPU option. These tasks are a lot slower on a CPU.
I want to know if there's sufficient interest in searching for these relatively small primes. They're about 200K digits.
Who would want to run GFN tasks that are very short but will be finding primes too small to make the Top 5000 list?
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