Volunteer Computing News

[SRBase] base S984 Megaprime

Sat, 1 Aug 2026 06:41:33 +0000

Thylia, a member of the team L'Alliance Francophone found a megaprime for base S984.
The prime 160*984^405697+1 has 1.214.252 digits and entered the T5k PrimePages.

[YAFU] Aliquot sequence 2650158 has terminated!!!

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:56:11 +0000

[SRBase] latest change to ll-dc app

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:06:21 +0000

We have removed the fixed input -v -use NO_ASM in latest WU batch

If you are running a 10xx card you must add

--passthrough_child -use NO_ASM

in app_config.xml to run this on your GPU.

For other options like -log xxx you need to change that to

--passthrough_child -log xxx

//xxx for any value see FAQ

to avoid computation errors.

[BOINC] Willy de Zutter has passed away

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:00:01 +0000

We are deeply saddened to learn of Willy's passing; some details are here. Willy was a staunch and tireless supporter of BOINC from its earliest days; he created BAM! and BOINCstats, widely-used account manager and statistics sites. He will be remembered, and missed.

[YAFU] Aliquot sequence 2086050 has terminated!!!

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 05:42:10 +0000

[NFS@home] Another new Cunningham project record

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 23:20:37 +0000

NFS@Home again set a new Cunningham project record for the largest penultimate prime factor. 3,709+ factors into 159-digit and 168-digit prime factors, beating the 155-digit record set in April. Congratulations again to all of the project volunteers!

[Einstein@home] New Continuous Gravitational Waves search

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:07:11 +0000

Dear Einstein@Home volunteers, we’re thrilled to announce a new Continuous Waves run! This run will be integrated into our ongoing all-sky program, contributing to our broad exploration for gravitational waves. We’re excited to have you with us—every bit of computing power brings us closer to discovery!

Prof. Dr. M.Alessandra Papa

[YAFU] Aliquot sequence 3677934 has terminated!!!

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 05:58:56 +0000

[SIDock@home] Project update: July 2026

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:54:03 +0000

Dear all,

we are glad to announce that SiDock@home has been restored after a long technical maintenance. We really appreciate your patience and are grateful for your participation! We have assigned BOINC credits for all the unfinished tasks received before the pause. Some of the forum threads or posts may be lost, but the computational results have been restored.

As the project's server has been reinstalled, you will probably need to detach and attach again in BOINC Manager.

We apologize for the inconvenience and are very thankful for your participation!

Natalia

[SRBase] base R96 Megaprime

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 09:48:56 +0000

Sightus@CAU, a member of the team Planet 3DNow! found a megaprime for base R96.
The prime 1648*96^547292-1 has 1.084.885 digits digits and entered the T5k PrimePages.

[SRBase] base S811 Megaprime

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 07:21:29 +0000

hypersphinx, a member of the team BOINC@AUSTRALIA found a megaprime for base S811.
The prime 450*811^373026+1 has 1.085.144 digits and entered the T5k PrimePages.

[SRBase] base S788 Megaprime

Thu, 9 Jul 2026 16:25:54 +0000

SkyHighWeFly, a member of the team Antarctic Crunchers found a megaprime for base S788.
The prime 14*788^346279+1 has 1.003.008 digits and entered the T5k PrimePages.

[PrimeGrid] World Snake Day Challenge

Sun, 5 Jul 2026 09:20:02 +0000

From July 16 16:00 to July 21 16:00 PrimeGrid will be running a 5 day challenge on the Factorial Prime Search project. For more information, please see this forum thread.

[SRBase] base S754 2 Megaprimes

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:26:26 +0000

M1.LaN, a member of the Czech National Team found a megaprime for base S754.
The prime 199*754^384827+1 has 1.107.293 digits digits and entered the T5k PrimePages.

Jeff_Wright, a member of the team Gridcoin found a megaprime for base S754.
The prime 199*754^423309+1 has 1.218.020 digits digits and entered the T5k PrimePages.

[SRBase] base S716 Megaprime

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 12:21:13 +0000

benhines, a member of the team Gridcoin found a megaprime for base S716.
The prime 166*716^447858+1 has 1.278.598 digits and entered the T5k PrimePages.

[YAFU] Aliquot sequence 3741750 has terminated!!!

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:44:13 +0000

[Gerasim@Home] Gerasim@home:

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:07:51 +0000

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58N8-AMGTRs

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Музыкальная пауза.

[SRBase] base R60 4 Megaprimes

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:46:04 +0000

taurec, a member of the team SETI.Germany found a megaprime for base R60.
The prime 17620*60^624380-1 has 1.110.247 digits digits and entered the T5k PrimePages.

Dukebox, a member of the team Dutch Power Cows found a megaprime for base R60.
The prime 5317*60^642543-1 has 1.142.543 digits digits and entered the T5k PrimePages.

Geralt, a member of the team LinusTechTips_Team found a megaprime for base R60.
The prime 8722*60^795580-1 has 1.414.666 digits digits and entered the T5k PrimePages.

Moor, a member of the team Planet 3DNow! found a megaprime for base R60.
The prime 5317*60^969015-1 has 1.723.059 digits digits and entered the T5k PrimePages.

[LHC@home] Degraded Website Availability

Tue, 9 Jun 2026 14:32:19 +0000

Some of you may have already noticed reduced website availability. We have been experiencing unusually heavy traffic from a distributed scraping bot. To mitigate the impact in the short term, we have temporarily disabled a number of pages and will gradually restore them over time. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

[SRBase] base R88 2 Megaprimes

Mon, 8 Jun 2026 10:08:36 +0000

[AF>Kirass>MPF] Nafrayou, a member of the team L'Alliance Francophone found a megaprime for base R88.
The prime 7911*88^525610-1 has 1.022.044 digits digits and entered the T5k PrimePages.

Science United found a megaprime for base R88.
The prime 7911*88^791998-1 has 1.540.031 digits digits and entered the T5k PrimePages.

[YAFU] Aliquot sequence 3626592 has terminated!!!

Sun, 7 Jun 2026 19:25:11 +0000

[SRBase] base S213 Megaprime

Sat, 6 Jun 2026 09:33:20 +0000

emoga, a member of the team TeAm AnandTech found a megaprime for base S213.
The prime 2956*213^433664+1 has 1.009.738 digits and entered the T5k PrimePages.

[Asteroids@home] The work distribution issue has been resolved.

Fri, 5 Jun 2026 21:44:34 +0000

The work distribution issue has been resolved.

Due to the unusually high load during the BOINC Formula event, the server-side work feeder cache was being exhausted too quickly. This caused some clients to receive “no tasks available” messages even though work was available in the database.

The feeder and scheduler configuration has been adjusted, and the server is now sending work normally again.

Thank you for your patience and happy crunching!

Radim Vanco (FoxKyong)

[SRBase] base R87 Megaprime

Fri, 5 Jun 2026 17:21:54 +0000

Dukebox, a member of the team Dutch Power Cows found a megaprime for base R87.
The prime 562*87^641685-1 has 1.244.564 digits digits and entered the T5k PrimePages.

[BOINC] New add-on available: BOINC-RPC

Fri, 5 Jun 2026 08:13:47 +0000

BOINC-RPC displays your current BOINC status in your Discord profile, including: number of active tasks, task progress, and task runtime.