PrimeGrid GFN-262144 Mega Prime!

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On 10 January 2018, 12:26:12 UTC, PrimeGrid’s Generalized Fermat Prime Search found the Generalized Fermat mega prime:

3853792^262144+1

The prime is 1,726,452 digits long and enters Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database ranked 6th for Generalized Fermat primes and 55th overall.

The discovery was made by Rod Skinner (rjs5) of the United States using an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 in an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700K CPU at 3.70GHz with 16GB RAM, running Linux. This GPU took about 18 minutes to probable prime (PRP) test with GeneferOCL3. Rod is a member of the Intel Corporation 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 6 hours 59 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR.

For more details, please see the official announcement.


SOURCE http://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=7797