distributedcomputing.info logo
 
Home   Forum    Wiki    Blog    News and Articles   Active Projects   Computing Platforms  
Upcoming Projects   Recently Completed Projects   Past Projects  
Tools   Development Platforms   Conferences   Parody and Fun Sites   Links   Politics
Teams   Books and Journals   FAQ   Link to Us



Active Distributed Computing Projects - Mathematics

These links take you to other project categories on this site:

Science   Life Sciences   Cryptography   Internet   Financial
Mathematics   Language   Art   Puzzles/Games   Miscellaneous   Distributed Human Projects
Collaborative Knowledge Bases   Charity

See the bottom of this page for a description of the icons on the page.

Project Information Project % Complete Major Supported Platforms
 
Mathematics
The current largest known Mersenne prime number is 243,112,609 - 1 (found on August 23, 2008, and containing almost 13 million digits). This is the largest known prime number and the 45th Mersenne prime discovered (and the 11th Mersenne prime discovered by GIMPS). Help find the next one in the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS). The 46th known Mersenne prime (and the 12th Mersenne prime discovered by GIMPS) is 237,156,667 - 1 (found September 6, 2008, and containing 11.2 million digits). The 47th known Mersenne prime (and the 13th Mersenne prime discovered by GIMPS) is 242,643,801 - 1 (found April 12, 2009, and containing 12.8 million digits).

As of July 8, 2008, all exponents below 17,000,000 have been double-checked. As of July 4, 2008, all exponents below M(20996011) have been tested at least once.

Unix users can participate in GIMPS using precompiled clients or source code at Ernst Mayer's site and the manual testing forms at the PrimeNet server.

Clients can be downloaded from the project's download page. Version 24.14 of the prime95 client is available for Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP as of August 9, 2005. Version 24.14 or the mprime (or statically linked sprime) client is available for Linux and FreeBSD as of August 9, 2005. Clients are also available for Windows NT/2000/XP Service, OS/2, and Windows 3.1. See a complete list of features in these versions. See the download page for information about cliens for Apple/PowerPC, StrongARM, and UNIX machines.

See the project's wiki.

Join a discussion forum about this project.

GIMPS also has a sub-project: ECM and P-1 Factoring. This project is "trying to factor numbers of the form 2N - 1 and 2N + 1 using either the P - 1 method or the Elliptic Curve Method (ECM)." On September 13, 2004, this project "found a 53-digit factor for M971. This was the smallest Mersenne number for which no factors were known!"

ongoing dialup-friendly

Windows 32
Linux
MacOS
Solaris

distributed.net OGR Help distributed.net's OGR project find Optimal Golomb Rulers (OGRs). These rulers are measuring systems used in radio astronomy and X-ray crystallography among other fields. Phase 1 of the OGR-24 project (which searched for stubs with leading marks totalling less than 70 and looked for a ruler shorter than the best-known length 425) began on July 9, 2000 and ended on May 13, 2004 without finding a shorter ruler. It tested 473,665,133,531,708,700 nodes. Phase 1 of the OGR-25 project (which searched for stubs with leading marks totalling less than 70 and looked for a ruler shorter than the best-known length 480) began on July 29, 2000 and ended on May 13, 2004 without finding a shorter ruler. It tested 28,068,365,417,772,860,000 nodes. The OGR Phase 2 or OGR25-P2 project began on May 9, 2004 and ended on October 25, 2008. It searched for OGR-24 and OGR-25 stubs with leading markings totalling 70 or greater and looked for rulers shorter than the best-known lengths listed above. OGR-24 (and the OGR-24 part of OGR-P2) was completed on November 1, 2004. It confirmed that the best known ruler: (24/9-24-4-1-59- 25-7-11-2-10-39- 14-3-44-26-8-40- 6-21-15-16-19-22) is the optimal 24-mark ruler. 555,529,785,505,835,800 rulers were tested, twice, in OGR-24. See the November 1, 2004, entry in Greg Hewgill's .plan for a diagram and explanation of the meaning of the optimal ruler. OGR25 and OGR-P2 verified that the previously-predicted shortest ruler of length 480 is optimal. The ruler has marks at these positions: 0 12 29 39 72 91 146 157 160 161 166 191 207 214 258 290 316 354 372 394 396 431 459 467 480. 124,387 participants tested 52,898,840,308,130,480,000 rulers twice to verify the optimal ruler.

The OGR-NG project is finding optimal rulers for 26, 27, 28, and higher marks. It began work on OGR-26 in October, 2008, and completed work on the project on February 23, 2009. It verified that the current best 26-mark ruler was optimal. It began work on OGR-27 on February 23, 2009. That project is still active.

See the project's download page for the latest version of the client, and the project's pre-release page for versions which are available for testing before they become official versions.

Use the RC5 key-rate calculator to see approximately what OGR node-rate your CPU will produce. The calculator was created by CalicoJak in January, 2003, and was last updated on February 22, 2006.

OGR-27:
~4.93% in 238 days
dialup-friendly

Windows 32
Linux
MacOS
Solaris
PS3

Search for different kinds of prime numbers at Yves Gallot's Proth Search Page.

Submit new primes to the Top 5000 Primes list. Version 7.1 of Proth is available as of July 12, 2005.

As of January 19, 2010, the project has finished double-checking numbers for all k < 1,200 and n < 600,000. As of February 15, 2010, the project has extended its reservations to all k < 1,200 and n < 900,000.

ongoing dialup-friendly

Windows 32

Help find new factors of Cunningham numbers at ECMNET.

To participate in the project, download the client (available for Windows, Linux, Solaris and various other flavors of Unix), download the Cunningham input list (see the link on the project website), then run the client and report any factors it finds through a link on the project website. Version 2.7.0 of the ECMNet client/server is available as of December 3, 2005.

ongoing dialup-friendly

Windows 32
Linux
MacOS
Solaris

Find Minimal Equal Sums of Like Powers using Euler2000, available on the download page. The client automatically downloads ranges of numbers to work on. The project celebrated its 10th anniversary on January 31, 2009. As of April 28, 2010 and the beginning of the yoyo@home Euler (6,2,5) project, this project will continue to support participants running this client but does not guarantee the project server may be available at all times to accept results.

On February 6, 2003, a project member discovered the largest (6,2,5) result above 60,000.

On December 8, 2002, a project member found a new upper limit for Taxicab(6): Taxicab(6) <= 24153319581254312065344, since 24153319581254312065344 = 289062063 + 5821623 = 288948033 + 30641733 = 286574873 + 85192813 = 270932083 + 162180683 = 265904523 + 174924963 = 262243663 + 182899223. The Taxicab problem isn't a part of the Minimal Equal Sums of Like Powers project, but this is a big discovery nonetheless.

Version 4.21b of the client is available as of September 30, 2002. This version handles reserved work ranges better, points to the new eulernet.org domain automatically, and on the server side, allows for simultaneous client connections. Note: you should upgrade from version 4.18 and earlier to fix a significant client bug in those versions. Note: 4.21b has a bug which prevents the client from connecting to the server if you try to reserve more than the maximum 100 ranges. Use temporary version 4.21c to fix the bug.

Note: the project server was switched to a new ISP and domain, eulernet.org, as of October 15, 2002. The client should use eulernet.org when trying to connect to the project server. If your client can't connect to the project server, try pressing Ctrl-U, then changing the server name from eulernet.org to euler.myip.org. This may solve your problem if the DNS is incorrect.

Join a discussion forum about the project.

ongoing:
Resta 3 (6,1,6): 100.0% (completed October 23, 2002)
Resta 6 (6,2,5): 90.47%
dialup-friendly

Windows 32

Search for factors of 2^(2^61-1)-1, a double Mersenne number, in the MM61 project. Download and test the client, then email the project coordinator to reserve a range of numbers to test.

Note that the project website is not accessible as of October 29, 2009. If you know of a new URL for the project or if the project has ended, please let me know.

ongoing: 18,640 ranges done, 6,360 to do dialup-friendly

Windows 32
Linux

Find 3x+1 class records in the 3x+1 Problem project. This project attempts to find ever higher 3x+1 class records. The client, which will work on any PC/Windows platform, and the instructions for joining the project, are here. Note: the client takes about 6 weeks to finish one block on a 400-MHz CPU.

The project completed its first goal, processing 20,000 blocks, on November 19, 2002. The project found a new glide record in December, 2002. This is the first glide record found in almost a year. The record occurs at 180352,746940,718527, and the new glide is 1575, an improvement of 104 over the previous record. The project found a new Path record in March, 2003. The previous Path record was found in late 2002. The record occurs at 212581,558780,141311, (or +/- 189.250) and it reaches a maximum of 4353,436332,008631,522202,821543,171376. As of November 2, 2008, the project completed all blocks up to 67,500 and confirmed class record 2000.

See the project's progress.

ongoing: blocks to go to class record (unknown);
all blocks up to 76,160 complete;
all class records below 2,000 known
dialup-friendly

Windows 32

Help the Distributed Search for Fermat Number Divisors project find unique Fermat Number factors.

This site is also available in Italian , Russian , and German .

Version 4.1 of the client is available as of September 7, 2001. Version 2.0 of the project's GMP_Fermat client is available as of June 10, 2008. Version 3.2.3 of the project's PFGW client is available as of November 3, 2009.

The project has found the following factors recently:
FactorDiscovererDate
1595863660157.287 + 1 divides F83Vasily DanilovMay 12, 2005
2018719057.21162 + 1 divides F1160Maximilian PacherMay 15, 2005
351276975.21719 + 1 divides F1710Maximilian PacherMarch 9, 2008
364182745.21724 + 1 divides F1722Maximilian PacherApril 19, 2008
6089.279223 + 1 divides F79221Payam SamidoostAugust 1, 2008
71007.249490 + 1 divides F49488Takahiro NoharaApril 18, 2009
1814649.212827 + 1 divides F12825Takahiro NoharaOctober 9, 2009
84977118993.2520 + 1 divides F517Sergei MaiorovJanuary 25, 2010
1784180997819127957596374417642156545110881094717.216 + 1 divides F14Sergei MaiorovFebruary 3, 2010
81909357657279.254 + 1 divides F52Cedric VonckMarch 15, 2010

ongoing dialup-friendly

Windows 32

The PCP@Home project looks for short cases of Post's Correspondence Problem with large shortest solutions. This theoretical computer science problem has been in existence since 1946. It demonstrates undecidability: "a problem that cannot be solved for all cases by any algorithm whatsoever." Finding PCPs in this project will help define "decidability criteria for bounded PCP classes."

To participate in the project, download a precompiled, statically linked executable for Linux ELF, FreeBSD ELF, Solaris 5.6, or Windows (you can also download and compile the source code), and also download a perl script called PcpSieve.pl which runs the executable, scans the output for record solutions, and emails the solutions to the project coordinator (you can also run the executable manually, search the output manually and email any record solutions you find). Note to Windows users: the Windows client was compiled by Michael Keppler of Rechenkraft.net. He says that it has a serious memory leak, and that you may need to kill it and restart it every day. If anyone knows how to debug Windows application memory leaks, please contact him.

This site is also available in German.

possibly ended;
Note: the project website has not been updated since 2004; the project may have ended
dialup-friendly

Windows 32
Linux
Solaris

Find generalized Fermat prime numbers in the Generalized Fermat Prime Search. This project uses the Proth program or the GFNSieve21 program to find these numbers. Unix-users and other users can compile the C source code of "GeneFer" for the project and you can directly check a pre-sieved range with it (note that the project owner of the pre-sieving project has blocked the website from viewers in the US, the UK, Australia, Denmark, and other countries which "support the US's war on Iraq"). Version 1.2 of this code is available as of June 10, 2002.

On January 6, 2003, Daniel Heuer discovered the largest known Generalized Fermat prime 148307665536+1 (404,434 digits), with GFNSieve+Proth, beating his previous record from October 8, 2002. "This number is the new largest known prime which is not a Mersenne prime, and the 6th largest known prime." On February 16, 2003, Michael Angel discovered the first prime of the form b217 + 1: 62722131072 + 1 (628,808 digits). This number is the 5th largest known prime. On February 21, 2003, the project completed the whole range 2-2,200,000 for exponent 32768. It found 35 primes in this range. On March 26, 2003, Franz Hagel discovered the 20th Generalized Fermat prime of the form b65536 + 1: 35786865536 + 1 (363,969 digits). On July 12, 2003, Michael Angel discovered the second known prime of the form b217 + 1: 130816131072 + 1. On August 22, 2003, Daniel Heuer discovered the largest known Generalized Fermat prime: 1176694217 + 1. This 795,695 digit number is now the 5th largest known prime. On September 22, 2003, Daniel Heuer discovered the new largest known Generalized Fermat prime: 1372930217 + 1. This 804,474 digit number is now the 5th largest known prime. On January 8, 2004, Yves Gallot discovered the 5th Generalized Fermat prime of the form b131072 + 1: 572186217 + 1 (754,652 digits). On May 30, 2004, Daniel Heuer discovered the two largest known Generalized Fermat primes: 1372930131072 + 1 (804,474 digits) and 1176694131072 + 1 (795,695 digits).

Join a discussion forum about prime numbers.

possibly ended;Note: the project website has not been updated since January, 2004; the project may have ended dialup-friendly

Windows 32
Linux
Solaris

Largest Proth Search Help search for the 33rd largest prime number in PSearch. A Proth prime is a prime number of the form k.2 n+1 where 2n > k. The project found the 15th largest prime number (and second largest Proth prime number, 32883.21000004+1, on May 22, 2002.

Participants in the project should have at least a 600 Mhz PC. To join the project, first download George Woltman's PRP software for Windows or Linux. Then send email to William Garnett with your CPU type and speed and your operating system, and he will send you instructions for participating.

Join a discussion forum about the project.

24,092 of 37,328 candidates tested;
should find one prime number in every 18,629 candidates;
Note: the project website has not been updated since February, 2006; the project may have ended
dialup-friendly

Windows 32
Linux

Seventeen or Bust Help find the smallest Sierpinski number in Seventeen or Bust, a distributed attack on the Sierpinski problem. The project looks for Proth prime numbers in which, for a number k, if every possible choice of n results in a composite (non-prime) Proth number N, k is a Sierpinski number.

The project began its k=33661 project on November 21, 2002, and added fifteen additional projects on November 23, 2002. It has found the following primes:

PrimeNumber of digitsDate found
46157 * 2698207 + 1 210,186 November 27, 2002
65567 * 21013803 + 1 305,190 December 3, 2002
44131 * 2995972 + 1 299,823 December 5, 2002
69109 * 21157446 + 1 348,431 December 7, 2002
54767 * 21337287 + 1 402,569 December 22, 2002
5359 * 25054502 + 1 1,521,561 December 15, 2003
28433 * 27830457 + 1 2,357,207 December 30, 2004
27653 * 29167433 + 1 2,759,677 June 15, 2005
4847 * 23321063 + 1 999,744 October 19, 2005
19249 * 213018586 + 1 3.9 million May 5, 2007
33661 * 27031232 + 1 2,116,617 October 17, 2007

The recent discovery of the 11th prime for the project helped prove a new mathematical theorem: the Mixed Sierpinski Problem. The results were published in a paper in the journal INTEGERS on December 23, 2008.

To participate in the project, sign up for an account, download the client, add your account name to the client configuration, and run it. The client does Proth tests on individual numbers. Each number should take a few hours to test on an average machine. When the project server assigns you a number, it waits for up to 10 days for you to return your search results, and reassigns the number to someone else if it doesn't receive your results within that time.

The client supports users behind firewalls and proxy servers. Version 2.5 of the client is available for Windows and Linux as of September 10, 2005. Version 2.5 of the client is available for FreeBSD as of 2006. Version 2.2 of the client is available for BeOS as of December 11, 2004. A new client based on the Prime95 client is available for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux as of March 18, 2009. This client has significant improvements in speed and efficiency.

Seventeen or Bust also has a supporting project to sieve numbers for the main project: sieving finds n numbers with small factors and removes them from the pool of prime number candidates which need to be tested by Seventeen or Bust. Two clients are available for sieving: SoBSieve (for Windows) and NBeGone (for multiple platforms). To reserve a range of numbers to sieve, post a message to the sieve coordination thread. Then submit the results from the range to the "sieve numbers" page mentioned above. The latest sob.dat file, with 10 k, is available as of January 3, 2005.

As of January 9, 2005, users with regular user accounts can also perform second-pass tests of numbers the project has already tested once. This feature will be included in a future client, but for now it requires a bit of hacking for the Windows client. See details in this thread and participate at your own risk.

See the project's Wiki.

Join a discussion forum about the project.

6 primes remaining to be found;
794,896 Proth tests completed
dialup-friendly

Windows 32
Linux
MacOS

Find factorizations of cyclotomic numbers at Factorizations of Cyclotomic Numbers. This site doesn't appear to be organized as an official distributed computing project and doesn't have any precompiled client software or explicit instructions for participating, so it is probably best suited for people who understand the Mathematical principles behind the project and how to compile source code.

The Phi(92) series was completely factored by November 2, 2002: the last composite number was factored by Tetsuya Kobayashi on that date. Katsuyuki Okeya finished the Phi(61) and Phi(122) series on December 30, 2002. The Phi(69) series was completely factored by January 12, 2003: the last composite number was factored by Alexander Kruppa. The Phi(112) series is completely factored as of September 25, 2004. The Phi(144) series is completely factored as of October 12, 2004. The Phi(104) series is completely factored as of November 30, 2004. The Phi(168) series is completely factored as of December 24, 2004. The Phi(180) series is completely factored as of January 18, 2005. The Phi(65) series is completely factored as of February 9, 2005. The Phi(130) series is completely factored as of February 26, 2005. The Phi(156) series is completely factored as of March 6, 2005. The Phi(210) series is completely factored as of March 22, 2005. The Phi(53) series is completely factored as of July 1, 2006. The Phi(198) series is completely factored as of September 13, 2008. The Phi(118) series is completely factored as of September 22, 2008.

To participate in the project, you can download and compile a GMP or UBASIC factorization program, view a page of reserved numbers, then select a range of numbers to factorize and send email to Hisanori Mishima with the range information.

Read a paper about cyclotomic polynomials and prime numbers by Yves Gallot.

ongoing Windows 32
Linux
Join the Goldbach Conjecture Verification to help verify the conjecture through 1e18 (it is currently verified through 1e16). The Goldbach conjecture is "one of the oldest unsolved problems in number theory. ...it states that every even number larger than two can be expressed as the sum of two prime numbers."

The client software consists of a server application which must be run on a GNU/Linux system with a version 2.4 or later kernel, and a client application which may be run on the same GNU/Linux system or on other GNU/Linux or Windows NT/2000/XP systems which can communicate with the server application over an intranet. As of May, 2005, "it is now possible to run the client program in "batch mode" in Windows. No server on GNU/Linux required. It will be necessary to manage things manually. The windows client program acts as a service. In particular, it does not run on a DOS windows. It runs invisibly in the background (at a very low priority)." To participate in the project, send email to Tomás Oliveira e Silva, the project coordinator, with information about the machine(s) on which you will run the server and client applications, and he will send you more information about how to participate.

ongoing dialup-friendly

Windows 32
Linux

Help The Riesel Problem project prove that k=509203 is the smallest Riesel Number. See the project's results on the search status page.

To participate download the proth.exe client, view reserved ranges on the checked out and progress page, then reserve a range (and submit your results) on the range reservation page. The latest public Beta version of LLRNet is available as of April 5, 2004.

ongoing dialup-friendly

Windows 32

Help find primes of the form 3 * 2n - 1 in the 3*2^n-1 Search. This project builds on the work of the project to find primes of the form k * 2n - 1 for k < 300. For 3 * 2n - 1, n is known up to 2,000,000. This project is currently looking for new ns between 2,000,000 and 3,000,000. The search to n=2,000,000 (about 600,000 digits) was completed on July 1, 2005. As of March 12, 2007, candidates have been sieved to 245 trillion, 6,958 total candidates are ready for LLR testing, and 119 work blocks are available for LLR testing.

The project has found the following primes recently:
PrimeDigitsDate
3 * 2234760 - 170,671April 11, 2003
3 * 2414840 - 1May 6, 2003
3 * 2584995 - 1August 19, 2003
3 * 2702038 - 1November 19, 2003
3 * 2727699 - 1January 26, 2004
3 * 2992700 - 1298,833May 15, 2004
3 * 21201046 - 1361,552August 24, 2004
3 * 21232255 - 1370,947August 30, 2004
3 * 22312734 - 1696,203December 20, 2005
3 * 23136225 - 1944,108March 8, 2007

To participate, download one of the following software clients: LLR, PFGW, PRP (see download links in the discussion forum), then reserve a range from the 3-4M reservations page and download a zip file of all the input files from a link on that page. After you run the client, email the results to Paul Underwood. Version 3.7.1 of LLR (available here) is available as of May 4, 2006. The latest sieved files are available as of February 23, 2007.

Join a discussion forum about the project.

87.54% for n up to 1,000,000 digits dialup-friendly

Windows 32

NFSNET NFSNET uses "the Number Field Sieve to find the factors of increasingly large numbers." You can participate in the project by following the instructions on the join page. See the project's latest news.

On November 10, 2002, NFSNET completed the factorization of W(668), a 204-digit special number field sieve (SNFS).

The client is command-line, with a GUI wrapper client available. It is better for users with permanent Internet connections. It supports users behind firewalls but not users behind proxy servers. Release Candidate 1 of the client is available as of May 12, 2003.

The project's 10 most recent factorizations:
NumberBeganSieving CompletedFactorization CompletedStats
7254 + 1 February 19, 2005 March 22, 2005 April 10, 2005 stats
11208 + 1 March 22, 2005 April 3, 2005 April 10, 2005 stats
11212 + 1 April 3, 2005 May 22, 2005 June 22, 2005 stats
2751 + 1 May 22, 2005 July 18, 2005 in progress stats
2760 + 1 July 17, 2005 July 27, 2005 August 4, 2005 stats
2736 + 1 July 26, 2005 September 5, 2005 October 5, 2005 stats
2719 + 1 September 5, 2005 September 28, 2005 October 30, 2005 stats
2761 - 1 September 19, 2005 November 24, 2005 January 22, 2006 stats
2764 + 1 November 19, 2005 February 7, 2006 May 1, 2006 stats
2,1466L February 7, 2006 March 27, 2006 March 30, 2006 stats
3479 + 1 March 30, 2006 in progress not yet started stats
2797 + 1 March 30, 2006 unknown July 3, 2006 stats

Join a discussion forum about the project.

Subscribe to the project mailing list.

ongoing Windows 32
Linux
MacOS
Join the Search for Multifactorial Primes. This project continues work started by Ray Ballinger to find multifactorial prime numbers, primes of the form n!!+/-1, n!!!+/-1, n!!!!+/-1, searching for all primes up to 10,000 digits for each multifactorial type.

The project has recently proven the following numbers are prime:
NumberDigitsDate
166332!23 - 134,619January 1, 2010
177871!23 - 137,246January 7, 2010
172344!23 - 135,986January 7, 2010
171232!23 - 135,733January 7, 2010
229345!23 - 149,125January 28, 2010
417240!23 + 194,083February 7, 2010
432801!23 + 197,892April 10, 2010
431414!23 + 197,892April 10, 2010
419499!23 + 197,892April 10, 2010
234676!7 + 1165,489 (new multifactorial record)April 15, 2010
284400!7 + 1203,944 (new multifactorial record)May 27, 2010

On March 29, 2005, the project finished !19 to 200,000. On May 31, 2005, the project finished !17 + 1 to 170,000. On August 6, 2005, the project finished !17 - 1 to 170,000. On August 21, 2005, the project finished !25 to 200,000. On September 9, 2005, the project finished !15 to 130,000. On November 26, 2005, the project finished !15 to 150,000. On November 26, 2005, the project tested all types up to 20 to 10,000 * type +/- 1. On December 20, 2005, the project finished !3 + 1 to 75,000. On February 28, 2006, the project finished !24 + 1 to 240,000. On March 27, 2008, the project finished !25 + 1 to 250,000. On July 8, 2010, the project finished !12 - 1 to 160,000.

Participation instructions are at the top of the project page. Basically, you email the project coordinator to reserve a type, then use the multisieve and pfgw Windows applications to sieve the range and find primes in it, then submit your results to the project coordinator.

ongoing dialup-friendly

Windows 32

15k2n1 Help find primes of the form 15k * 2n - 1 in the 15k Prime Search. The project is looking for 15k which produce many primes n: "in general when k has many small factors, n is more likely to produce a prime because it can't have those same factors." As of May 7, 2005, the project is the #1 top project by number of primes, with 397 primes discovered. Note: As of April 24, 2008, the project website URL no longer goes to a project website or page, but the project's discussion forum and wiki (see links below) are still available.

The project has found the following prime numbers recently:
165054615 * 2223395 - 1October 10, 2005
504017085 * 2246861 - 1October 10, 2005
545544285 * 2232438 - 1October 10, 2005
355424355 * 2456781 - 1October 11, 2005
2 primes for k=9345October 15, 2005
736320585 * 2339426 - 1October 16, 2005
2190435975 * 2204857 - 1October 18, 2005
743411955 * 2210282 - 1October 18, 2005
2 primes for k=773021535October 18, 2005
2 primes for k=245630385October 18, 2005

See all of the primes the project has found.

To participate, follow the instructions for how to join, then the instructions for how to participate (novice or expert). The project uses the LLR.exe, NewPGen.exe and RMA.NET software executables. Note that you will need to download the Microsoft .NET runtime library if you don't already have it installed. Version 0.82 of RMA.NET is available as of December 3, 2005.

Join a discussion forum about the project. See the project's wiki.

ongoing dialup-friendly

Windows 32

Find factors of the Mersenne number M(3326400) = 23326400 - 1 in ElevenSmooth. Note: this project is active, but the project website is not updated unless a major event occurs. The website was last updated on May 1, 2009. See the project's completed factorizations.

On February 1, 2004 the project "found a 42 digit factor of M(5280) using GMP-ECM with B=3M. This is expected to qualify for 9th place in Paul Zimmerman's Top Ten This Year list." On April 4, 2004, the project found P35, the first known primitive factor of M(15840). On May 14, 2004, the project found P34, the second known factor of M(10395). On June 9, 2004, the project found P25, the second known factor of the primitive part of M(66528). On June 12, 2004, the project found a P49 factor for M(1485), the largest factor found by ElevenSmooth using ECM. On July 20, 2004, the project completed the factorization of M(3960). On September 18, 2004, the project found a P28 factor of M(95040): this is the first known factor of the primitive part of M(95040). On October 19, 2004, the project found a P36 factor of M(11880), "the second known factor for the primitive part of this number." On July 28, 2005, the project found a P35 factor of M(47520), the third factor the project has found for the primitive part of M(47520). In early December, 2005. the project found a 41-digit factor of M(6336). In March, 2008, the project completed the factorization of M(1575). On May 7, 2008, the project completed the factorization of M(2376). On July 16, 2008, the project found a P34 factor of M(5400) (using ECM at the B1=1M level). This factor reduces the unfactored residual from C406 to C373. This is the second factor ElevenSmooth has found for this number. On November 15, 2008, the project found a P37 factor of M(100800). This factor reduces the unfactored residual from C6925 to C6889. On March 27, 2009, the project found a P51 factor of 23360 + 1. This is the largest factor ElevenSmooth has found by ECM and is the fourteenth primitive for which ElevenSmooth has completed the factorization. See news of more recent factor discoveries on the project's main page.

To participate in the project, download the ECMclient application and configure it according to the directions on the download page (if you already have the ECM or ECMclient application installed, you only need to reconfigure it to use server=wblipp.dynu.com and port=8194). Unix users can follow instructions to create an ECM client for Unix. Once ECMclient is configured, it contacts the ElevenSmooth project server to get work units and to return results. It processes a work unit for 30 minutes by default, but you can change the processing time by changing the maxfreq parameter. The project supports users behind firewalls and possibly proxy servers. It supports modem users with a little bit of work. See the help page for information about using firewalls, proxy servers, and modems.

The project also has a Special Project sub-project for users who have contributed at least one full week to the main ECM project. The Special Project "uses GIMPS' program Prime95 to work on all primitives of M(3326400) simultaneously. If any ECM work is going to be done on the largest composites, Prime95 is much faster. The subfactor composites are then tested 'for free.' However, even with Prime95, it takes a long time to run ECM curves on large numbers." Users who qualify for this project will be invited by email to join it.

See the project's progress and completed factorizations.

Join a discussion forum about the project.

unknown Windows 32
Help the Riesel Sieve's efforts to solve the Riesel problem by "removing prime candidates for the remaining k's from a huge .dat file.... The .dat file contains n values from a current low of about 1,700,000 to a high of 20,000,000 per remaining k. Individual sieving efforts per single k can take two weeks to a month to sieve to a sufficient level. This coordinated sieving effort will allow us to sieve 100 times deeper and much quicker. No more sieving to 3T and stopping in frustration as the hours per factor mount, now we can go to 300T and beyond..." Before the project began, there were 101 candidate k's and over 11 million k/n pairs. See the status of all remaining k values. See an overview of the tests remaining to be completed.

Note: the project website was unreachable between July, 2008 and October, 2008. The status of the project is unknown. Look for news updates in the News column of the PrimeGrid project main web page and in the Riesel Sieve "backup forums."

As of February 18, 2005, the project has sieved all of its ks to 100T. As of June 18, 2005, the project has 5,488,686 k/n pairs left to test. As of March 22, 2006, the project has completed the 2^20 to 2^21 stage of its first run. As of February 27, 2007, the project has sieved all of its ks to 500T.

On September 16, 2005, the project offered a US$100 prize to the person who found the next prime for the project. Project participant NeoLogic found the prize-winning prime, 357659 * 2^1779748 - 1, on September 24. On September 26, the project began a Prime Bounty Contest, which rewards both prime hunter and sieve participants in the project. On September 28, 2005, the project began a Riesel Sieve Prime and Sieve Bounty donation fund at fundable. This fund will be used for rewards for project participants who find primes and who sieve significant factors for the project, according to the contest rules.

The project has found the following prime numbers recently:
417643 * 21800787 - 1October 5, 2005
467917 * 21993429 - 1December 24, 2005
450457 * 22307905 - 1March 28, 2006
196597 * 22178109 - 1May 9, 2006
114487 * 22198389 - 1May 23, 2006
275293 * 22335007 - 1September 22, 2006
26773 * 22465343 - 1December 1, 2006
342673 * 22639439 - 1April 24, 2007
469949 * 21649228 - 1October 28, 2007
113983 * 23201175 - 1May 1, 2008

The project offers the independent LLRNet client and a BOINC-based Sieve client.

To participate in the project, follow the BOINC Sieve client instructions, or use the LLRNet client to automatically download ranges of numbers and to submit results (see instructions for using it), or view instructions on the download page to use the rieselsieve.exe client. Basically you download the rieselsieve.exe executable and the riesel.dat data file (about 6 MB compressed and 27 MB fully expanded). Then you reserve a range of numbers through the automated reservation page, process them with rieselsieve.exe, and submit your resulting factors. The riesel.dat file is updated regularly and gets smaller as prime candidates are removed.

Version 0.42 of the Proth_sieve client is available for Windows and Linux as of February 12, 2004. This version is 5-10% faster than the previous version. A client should be available for FreeBSD soon. Version 3.5 of LLRNet is available as of May 2, 2005. Version 5.27 of the BOINC Sieve client is available for Windows as of August 27, 2006. The riesel.dat file was last updated on December 3, 2006. An updated Windows GUI client should be available soon.

See the project's wiki.

Join a discussion forum about the project.

on hold?
k remaining
Windows 32
Linux
Help The Prime Sierpinski Project find the smallest prime Sierpinski number. "The smallest known prime Sierpinski number is k=271129. Finding a prime of type k * 2n + 1 for all prime k < 271129 will be sufficient to prove that 271129 is the smallest prime Sierpinski number." As of January 2, 2005, 24 k have been eliminated and 7 k remain to be tested. It is currently searching the following k: 79309, 79817, 90527, 152267, 156511, 168451, 222113, 225931, 237019, 258317.

The project's first anniversary was on November 8, 2004. By that date it eliminated 11 k's by finding 11 large primes, and also sieved to almost 40 trillion. In the next year it hopes to reach at least n=2.5 million for PRP, to find serveral new primes, and to sieve to 100 trillion. As of October 1, 2005, it has tested all n below n=1600000 at least once. With help from PrimeGrid, the project's sieve entered the 10P range by September 30, 2008.

The project has found the following prime numbers recently:
159503 * 2540945 + 1February 7, 2004
263927 * 2639599 + 1February 20, 2004
261917 * 2704227 + 1March 8, 2004
161957 * 2727995 + 1March 22, 2004
216751 * 2903792 + 1May 10, 2004
241489 * 21365062 + 1January 24, 2005
149183 * 21666957 + 1October 7, 2005
214519 * 21929114 + 1January 2, 2006
222361 * 22854840 + 1August 31, 2006
265711 * 24858008 + 1April 5, 2008

To participate in the project, read the Getting Started discussion thread, then download and run the network LLR client. The client automatically reserves work units and submit results.

Join a discussion forum about this project.

7 k remaining;
untested pairs up to n=50,000,000
Windows 32
Linux
Help P.I.E.S (Prime Internet Eisenstein Search) find large prime Generalised Eisenstein Fermat numbers numbers. The project's main goal is to study the properties of these numbers, and for that it needs to find some prime numbers.

To participate in the project, send email to the project owner, user "thefatphil" at host "yahoo.co.uk", to let him know you're interested. Then download the client and follow the instructions on the download page for running it. Version 0.7 of the client is available for Windows. Version 0.8 is available for Linux, FreeBSD, AIX and Irix.

ongoing;
Note: the project website has not been updated since 2005 and may be inactive
Windows 32
Linux
Help find Factors of k*2^n±1 for k=3,5,7,9,11,13 and N < 1000.

See the 50 most recent factors.

As of September 5, 2004, the project has reached n=500 for all k=11. The project now includes numbers for k=13, also factored up to n=500. "Numbers for k=13, n > 500 have had very little ecm done on them."

The doecm client downloads composites and submits results automatically, but you can manually reserve numbers and submit factors through the website. Version 1.01 of the client is available for Windows and Linux. You can also download and compile the source code for the client.

ongoing Windows 32
Linux
Help factor numbers of the form xy + yx in the XYYXF project.

The project completed the factorization of all numbers with y < 11 as of February 7, 2005. It completed the factorization of all numbers up to x = 90 as of March 16, 2005. It completed the factorization of all numbers with y < 16 as of April 27, 2005. The number of composites was reduced to 2500 as of September 10, 2005. It completed the factorization of all numbers with y <= 100 as of October 28. The number of composites was reduced to 2300 as of October 18, 2007. It completed the factorization of all numbers up to x = 100 as of October 28, 2007. The number of composites was reduced to 1800 as of November 25, 2009.

The project added a Primes and PRPs of the form xy + yx page to its website on June 6, 2008.

The project has factored the following numbers recently:
10392 + 92103September 28, 2006
14832 + 32148March 12, 2007
15048 + 48150September 9, 2007
14197 + 97114December 18, 2007
13144 + 44131February 14, 2008
114103 + 103114May 29, 2008
12465 + 65124 (largest factorization record 225 digits)January 5, 2009
14325 + 25143February 11, 2009
11882 + 82118 (GNFS record 147 digits)May 25, 2009
12293 + 93122 (SNFS record 241 digits)November 19, 2009

The project has also factored the following numbers recently:
C251_124_105 = P41 * C210August 16, 2005
C168_110_63 = P57 * P112 (ECM record 57 digits)January 13, 2009

You can reserve numbers manually through the project website and factor them with your favorite factoring client application (GMP-ECM is reocmmended), or you can use the ECMclient application and automatically reserve numbers and submit results (use the ecmserver childers.myip.org, port 34). Version 6.0 of GMP-ECM is available as of February 28, 2005. Version 2.5.6 of ECMclient is available as of March 16, 2005. Version 1.39 of MSieve, another client which can be used for the project, is available as of December 2, 2008. As of November 19, 2004, there are 3,242 XYYXF composites from C93 to C321. 761 of them are reserved; 2,481 (including 123 more wanted) are available. Due to a massive SNFS attack, only 38 new numbers were added to the "most wanted" list for 2005.

Join a Yahoo! Group discussion forum about this project.

ongoing Windows 32
Linux
Help search for a billion-digit Mersenne prime in Operation Billion Digits. The project website is also available in Italian . This project is attempting a nearly-impossible goal. Since today's technology and algorithms can't find a prime as large 1 billion digits in less than 853 years, this project is doing trial factoring of potential numbers. This factoring will help future searches and will help improve computer science and number theory techniques. The project passed the 1,000 Pentium 90 CPU hours mark on February 12, 2005.

To participate in the project, download Luigi Morelli's factor3_2.exe client and some Cygwin files from the project web page, then reserve an unassigned exponent in the project's discussion forum. Version 2 of the client is currently available. It is 25% faster than the previous version.

Join a discussion forum about this project. See the project's latest progress updates.

ongoing; currently at level 12.00 (9 candidates trial factored to 74 bits) dialup-friendly

Windows 32
Linux
MacOS

Help Primesearch find primes of the form k * 2n - 1. The project is currently searching k between 301-399 with n at least 16001.

To participate in the project, sign up for an account on the website, then reserve ranges and submit results through the website. Use either the proth or primeform application: links to these applications are on Prime Links++ to process your reserved ranges.

ongoing Windows 32
Lone Mersenne Hunters looks for Mersenne prime numbers which have not been tested by other projects or by GIMPS' Primenet server.

To participate, read the instructions in the How to start? discussion thread.

Note: this project only has a discussion forum and no website.

ongoing dialup-friendly

Windows 32
Linux

Factoring is a collection of factoring projects.

Factoring completed the factorization of 2^791+1 (to 45 digits) on May 2, 2005. It completed the factorization of 2,1342L on May 8, 2005. It achieved a new P - 1 record, 2,2098M c281 = p58 * c224, on September 28, 2005.

Factoring Projects:
ProjectBeganEndedCurves Completed
M1061 October 14, 2004 in progress 1185 of 22000
HP49(100) October 24, 2004 in progress  
P16384 October 31, 2004 in progress  
R311 December 12, 2004 in progress
found 64-digit factor 43446730587149544777613147934373
92900672885445361103905548950933, 2nd-largest ever using ECM, on September 5, 2005
 
M8151 December 29, 2004 in progress B1 11000000:
3890 of 10600
B1 44000000:
1801 of 19300
Factoring 43rd Term of Euclid-Mullin sequence January 23, 2005 in progress  

To participate, read the instructions in the forum.

Note: these projects only have a discussion forum and no websites.

ongoing dialup-friendly

Windows 32
Linux

Help the 100 Million digits prefactor project remove exponents which can be factored now from GIMPS' search for the first known 100 million digit prime number. This is a sister project to Operation Billion Digits. The project does "wide" prefactoring, in which it prefactors "large ranges of exponents [at a depth of no less than 50 bits and no more than 55 bits] to eliminate large numbers of exponents," and "deep" prefactoring, in which it prefactors "individual exponents to higher bit depths, usually into the mid 60's (possibly higher)." As of January 21, 2009, the project has deep prefactored to bit depths as high as 77.

To participate in the project, download Luigi Morelli's factor3_2.exe client and some Cygwin files, or Mfactor for win32, or 32-bit or 64-bit Linux, from links on the project web page. (See more information in the guide.) Then look for an available range or exponent in the table on the project web page and follow the instructions on the project web page to reserve the range or exponent and to submit results. Version 2 of the factor3_2 client is currently available. It is 25% faster than the previous version.

Join a discussion forum about this project.

ongoing0 exponents factored--> dialup-friendly

Windows 32
Linux
MacOS

Help Repdigit Prime Problems find prime numbers of the form n * k, where k is a single digit which can be repeated any number of times (for example, for n = 47 and k = 3, a possible repdigit prime might be 473333).

To participate in the project, use the primeform application (follow the directions on the project page for using primeform), and send email to the project coordinator to reserve a range to check and to submit results.

ongoing dialup-friendly

Windows 32

Help Mersenneplustwo Factorization factor numbers of the form 2^p+1.

To participate in the project, use one of the software clients listed on the project website. The project website does not contain details about how to use the clients or about how to reserve numbers and submit results. More information may be available in the project's discussion forum. Also see the project's wiki.

ongoing dialup-friendly

Windows 32
Linux

Help Sierpinski/Riesel Base 5 for the smallest base 5 Sierpinski and Riesel numbers. The project does not have a website, only a discussion forum.

The project has found the following primes recently:
PrimeDate
57316 * 538250 + 1May 26, 2005
159106 * 589982 + 1May 29, 2005
53858 * 533760 - 1June 3, 2005
98288 * 533760 - 1June 6, 2005
214958 * 520254 - 1June 21, 2005
43156 * 544135 - 1June 22, 2005
294698 * 547110 - 1June 23, 2005
18914 * 526012 - 1July 12, 2005
9374 * 536046 - 1July 17, 2005
9164 * 540892 - 1July 19, 2005

To participate in the project, use NewPGen to sieve and PRP to test, and follow these instructions. As of October 15, 2006, a Linux version of the LLRNet client is available from http://base5.greenbank.org/. See instructions for using this client. Note that the reservation list reached the 10,000 character limit on October 15, 2005, so participants should follow the links to the sieve files on the reservations page.

ongoing dialup-friendly

Windows 32
Linux

Help SZTAKI Desktop Grid find all generalized binary number systems up to dimension 11. The project website is written in Hungarian, but some of the text is also available in English. A detailed project description is available in English. The project completed its 10 dimensional project and began its 11 dimension project on August 2, 2005. The project will provide detailed information about the 10 dimension project results soon.

The project passed 1 TeraFLOPS/second of computing power on February 27, 2006.

On September 12, 2006, the project began a new test project called SZTAKI Desktop Grid Research Facility (szdgr). This project will "improve the testing process of applications, thus improving user-experience (get rid of the credit problems, etc.) of SZTAKI Desktop Grid."

The project uses a BOINC-based client. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. Version 2.01 of the project's NumSys Search client is available for Windows as of October 16, 2006. Version 2.03 is available for Linux as of August 1, 2006. Version 2.00 is available for Mac OSX as of July 5, 2006.

Join a discussion forum about the project.

163,931,407 credits dialup-friendly

Windows 32
Linux
MacOS

PrimeGrid PrimeGrid is a test project for PerlBOINC, a Perl-language-based port of the BOINC platform. The project's first sub-project was a cryptography project which attempted to factor the number in the RSA Factoring Challenge. Currently the project is running a sub-project, Primegen, to generate a public sequential prime number database, and is supporting a number of other mathematics distributed comptuing projects.

On February 28, 2007, the project reported its 100th prime to the prime pages.

On November 26, 2006, the project began working with Twin Internet Prime Search, and is supporting a second sub-project to help that project. It completed its search on August 6, 2009, with the discovery of twin primes.

On October 3, 2008, the project achieved "'optimal' sieve depth [in the Cullen/Woodall project] ...actually, a little beyond it. Therefore, we are stopping the 32 bit and 64 bit Cullen/Woodall Sieve applications and archiving the sieve. Cullen/Woodall LLR will remain active up to n=10M. For more information, please see this forum post."

On December 27, 2008, the project began a new sub-project, AP26 Search, "an Arithmetic Progression of 26 primes. An arithmetic progression of primes is a sequence of primes with a common difference between any two successive numbers in the sequence. For example 3, 7, 11 is an arithmetic progression of 3 primes with a common difference of 4."

On August 8, 2008, the project announced a "Dog Days of Summer Challenge." The three-day challenge ran from August 22-24 and supported PrimeGrid's 321 Prime Search LLR application. See more information in a forum thread about the challenge. On September 6, 2008, the project announced a "Back to the Future Challenge." The 14-day challenge ran from September 13-27 and supported the Woodall Prime Search for the next record Woodall prime. During the challenge, "over 8,000 Woodall [work units] were completed by 204 teams and 1108 individuals." See more information in the challenge's forum thread. On January 24, 2009, the project announced a "Year of the Ox Challenge." The 5-day challenge supported the project's 321 Prime Search (LLR) sub-project. See more information in the challenge's forum thread. The project began its Tour de Primes 2009 contest on February 1, 2009.

On February 14, 2009, the project announced a partnership with 12121 Search.

On April 20, 2009, the project's Cullen Prime Search found a World Record Cullen Mega Prime: 6328548 * 26328548 + 1 (1,905,090 digits). At that time this prime was the largest Cullen prime found and the largest Mega Prime found using LLR. On August 6, 2009, the project's Cullen Prime Search found its next World Record Cullen Mega Prime: 6679881 * 26679881 + 1 (2,010,852 digits).

The project uses a BOINC-based client. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. Version 5.13 of the project's Prime Generator client is available as of May 16, 2006. Version 5.04 of the project's LLR Prime Search client is available as of November 25, 2006.

Join a discussion forum about this project.

1,558,626,413 credits dialup-friendly

Windows 32

Help find Riesel primes, primes of the form k * 2n - 1, with k > 1, in the Riesel Prime Search. This project has three sub-projects:
  1. find k's that can produce many primes in the given range of exponent n
  2. find low-weight k's that produce a very small number of primes [opposite to the sub-project above
  3. find small k < 300 (with exception of those k's already reserved by other projects)

See the latest primes found by the project here and here.

To participate, look for (or ask for) instructions in the project forums. Note: this project only has a discussion forum and no website.

ongoing dialup-friendly

Windows 32
Linux

Help Rectilinear Crossing Number determine "the least number of crossings for a straight-edge drawing of the complete graph on top of a set of n points in a plane." See more information about the project. The project is currently focusing on n=18. The project website is also available in Russian and German.

On May 21, 2008 the project began releasing W7 work units.

The project uses a BOINC-based client. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. Version 5.45 of the project's CAPE Crossing Number client is available for Linux as of August 3, 2006. Version 5.41 is available for Windows as of July 4, 2006. Version 5.49 of the project's TCAPE Crossing Number client is available for Linux and Windows as of August 5, 2006.

Join a discussion forum about the project.

8,222,202 credits dialup-friendly

Windows 32
Linux

Help ABC@home find abc triples for the ABC Conjecture, "one of the greatest open problems in mathematics." "abc triples are positive integers a,b,c such that a+b = c, a < b < c, a,b,c have no common divisors and c > rad(abc), the so-called radical of abc. The ABC conjecture says that there are only finitely many a,b,c such that log(c) / log(rad(abc)) > h for any real h > 1. ... If i[the conjecture] is proven to be true, a lot of other open problems can be answered directly from it." The project completed its first major goal in Janaury, 2009, and will restart in February, 2009, with a new, better algorithm and new work units.

The project uses a BOINC-based client. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. Version 1.00 of the project's ABC finder client is available for Windows and Linux as of January 13, 2007.

Join a discussion forum about the project.

101,152 credits dialup-friendly

Windows 32
Linux

Help the WEP-M+2 Project find factors of Mersenneplustwo numbers. "Mersenneplustwo numbers are those integers that are two more than a Mersenne prime. Mersenne primes are of the form 2^p-1 (see Mersenne Prime Search). This makes Mersenneplustwo numbers of the form 2^p+1."

The project uses a BOINC-based client. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. Version 1.06 of the project's "Random-base WEP Factorization" client is available for Linux/x86 as of January 4, 2007. Version 1.07 of the client is available for Linux/AMD64 as of January 21, 2007. Version 1.04 of the client is available for Mac OSX as of December 5, 2006.

Join a discussion forum about the project.

unknown credits dialup-friendly

Linux
MacOS

yoyo@home yoyo@home OGR is a BOINC-based wrapper for distributed.net's OGR-25 project.

The project uses a BOINC-based client. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. Version 1.08 of the project's Cruncher application is available for Windows as of September 2, 2007. Version 1.07 is available for Linux/X86 as of August 30, 2007. Version 1.08 is available for Linux/X86-64 as of October 2, 2007. Version 1.07 is available for Mac OSX as of August 31, 2007. Version 1.08 is available for Solaris and FreeBSD as of September 30, 2007. Version 1.09 is available for PS3 as of September 30, 2007.

Join a discussion forum about yoyo@home.

70,543,602 credits for all yoyo@home projects dialup-friendly

Windows 32
Linux
MacOS
Solaris
PS3

TSP Help TSP find the shortest route between the 48 capital cities of the contiguous United States of America. The project is solving this problem to study the Traveling Salesman Problem, an NP-Hard problem for which there is no efficient general solution. The project is first "using the brute force method to find an optimal solution to a 48 city TSP. Once the optimal path(s) is/are known evaluation of other algorithms can begin. Future algorithms include genetic algorithms, repetitive nearest neighbor, simulated annealing and ant colony optimization." TSP is the first distributed computing project to be developed and hosted in American Samoa.

See the best path discovered by the project today.

The project uses a BOINC-based client. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. Version 2.15 of the project's TravelingSalesmanProblem application is available for Windows, Linux, Mac OSX and FreeBSD as of November 28, 2007.

Join a discussion forum about this project.

credits dialup-friendly

Windows 32
Linux
MacOS

Wieferich@Home Help Wieferich@Home find Wieferich primes. Only two Wieferich primes are known: 1093 and 3511. See more information about the project.

To participate in the project, download and run the project's software client. Version 2.0 of the client is available for Windows as of February 4, 2008. This version "accelerates searching in complete and periodical test. Software makes use of totally new algorithms, which are very efficient for mathematical method: exponentiation and congruency. New units for complete test are 10x larger and in periodical test 1.5x larger."

Join a discussion forum about this project.

0 Wieferich primes found dialup-friendly

Windows 32

Help No Prime Left Behind find Riesel primes of the form k * 2n - 1 with odd k and 300 < k <= 1001 and n > 260,000, and not reserved by others with highly presieved ranges.

To participate in the project, follow instructions in the project's Software/instructions/questions discussion thread. The project uses the LLR, NewPGen, Sr1sieve, Sr2sieve, Srfile, and Srsieve applications.

Join a discussion forum about this project.

ongoing dialup-friendly

Windows 32

Help k6465 find primes of the form 6465 * 2n - 1.

To participate in the project, send email to the project owner to reserve a range, then download NewPGen version 2.82 for pre-sieveing and LLR version 3.71c for finding primes (you can download these applications from http://gbarnes017.googlepages.com/primebehindprogs.zip or from links listed in other projects above), then search for prime numbers within that range, then email the results to the project owner.

ongoing dialup-friendly

Windows 32

Ramsey@Home Help Ramsey@Home find Ramsey numbers. "Ramsey theory, named for Frank P. Ramsey, is a branch of mathematics that studies the conditions under which order must appear. Problems in Ramsey theory typically ask a question of the form: how many elements of some structure must there be to guarantee that a particular property will hold?"

The project uses a BOINC-based client. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. See the project's Applications page for information about the client applications and versions the project is using.

Join a discussion forum about this project.

78,842,929 credits dialup-friendly

Windows 32
Linux
MacOS

Help NFS@Home complete the lattice sieving step of number field sieve factorizations of large integers. The project is currently working on Cunningham composites.

The project uses a BOINC-based client. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. See the project's Applications page for information about the client applications and versions the project is using.

Join a discussion forum about this project.

unknown credits dialup-friendly

Windows 32
Linux

yoyo@home yoyo@home ECM is supporting several projects which use Elliptic Curve Factorization to find factors for different kinds of numbers.

See the project's progress page for its latest results.

The project uses a BOINC-based client. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. See the project applications page for the latest version of the ECM client.

Join a discussion forum about yoyo@home.

567,135,297 credits for all yoyo@home projects as of May 6, 2010 dialup-friendly

Windows 32

yoyo@home yoyo@home Euler (6,2,5) is searching for minimal equal sums of power 6. The project expects to find at least 32 new sums. See more information about the project.

The project finished on June 8, 2010. The project began another Euler625 project on June 12, 2010. The new project, which searches up to 250,000, needs testers for its Linux clients.

See the latest solutions found by the project.

The project uses a BOINC-based client. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. See the project applications page for the latest version of the Euler (6,2,5) client.

Join a discussion forum about yoyo@home.

10.2% dialup-friendly

Windows 32
MacOS

The following icons may appear in the Supported Platforms section of the table:
dialup-friendlythis project is good for users with dialup Internet access
paid projectthis is a for-pay project
Windows 32this project runs on the Windows 32-bit platform
Linuxthis project runs on the Linux platform
MacOSthis project runs on the Mac OS platform
Solaristhis project runs on the Solaris platform

Top...