2008-06-28: Superlink@Technion - Credits Thanks to our latest discussion about credits, we decided to grant 20% more credits for all the successfully (and timely) crunched results
2008-06-25: RieselSieve - Project News June 25 Over the past few weeks, we've had a number of database related issues, partly due to higher loads, partly due to software crashes, and others partly due to Bryan not being around to watch the DB. Thankfully, Bryan is back to monitor things, and has slimmed the DB from 2.2GB to 942Mb as of this evening. This alone helps immensely in response times from the server & preventing the load backlogs that were occurring on a daily basis. For example, the DB optimization has dropped from ~35 mins to about 8 mins as of this evening. On a second note, we have found our 31st prime at the Riesel Sieve project. The prime, weighing in at 1,086,531 digits, is the largest prime we have found at Riesel Sieve, and the 17th largest in the world. While it was not found by BOINC (LLRNet won out yet again), BOINC's nearly 495,000 factors have played a huge role in getting us this far. Our hope is that there is a prime between the two that LLRNet has found, which BOINC is testing the range. A new DAT release will occur Wednesday or Thursday for BOINC clients; it is available for 'traditional' sieve clients through the download page. We will be transitioning soon to the 'standard' BOINC server setup, although that is at least a week away. More details will follow.