To the regulars and to all the new people that have joined the EVGA forums.
It is Primegrids birthday and they are having a party, you all are invited. There is a Primegrid birthday challenge, it is a one day event
1 day 6/12/17 00:00 UTC -- 6/13/17 00:00 UTC PG 3rd of 2017
Run Primegrid under BOINC. This is a CPU project.
What they do is send you a work unit (task) you process the data and send back the info.
They are looking for prime numbers. If you find a prime, your name will be in the book of 5000 largest primes found.
Here is the thread where you can ask questions about setting it up and what/how/when...
https://forums.evga.com/PrimeGrids-Birthday-Challenge-1-day-61217-0000-UTC-61317-0000-UTC-PG-3rd-of-2017-m2679879.aspx
There is a series of primegid challenges throughout  the year that the EVGA BOINC crunching team partakes in.
Please join us.

 
Ok.

Thanks Bill

Team EVGA came in 6th place.
Thanks everyone who joined in.
 
 
Final statistics:

Challenge: PrimeGrid's Birthday
App: 2 (SGS-LLR)
(As of 2017-06-13 00:14:16 UTC)

660651 tasks have been sent out. [CPU/GPU/anonymous_platform: 656331 (99%) / 0 (0%) / 4320 (1%)]

Of those tasks that have been sent out:

9026 (1%) came back with some kind of an error. [9023 (1%) / 0 (0%) / 3 (0%)]
466011 (71%) have returned a successful result. [461750 (70%) / 0 (0%) / 4261 (1%)]
173956 (26%) are still in progress. [173942 (26%) / 0 (0%) / 9 (0%)]

Of the tasks that have been returned successfully:

126379 (27%) are pending validation. [125192 (27%) / 0 (0%) / 1187 (0%)]
339453 (73%) have been successfully validated. [336379 (72%) / 0 (0%) / 3074 (1%)]
95 (0%) were invalid. [95 (0%) / 0 (0%) / 0 (0%)]
84 (0%) are inconclusive. [84 (0%) / 0 (0%) / 0 (0%)]

The current leading edge (i.e., latest work unit for which work has actually been sent out to a host) is k=3525556429377. The leading edge was at k=3499543753935 at the beginning of the challenge. Since the challenge started, the leading edge has advanced 0.74% as much as it had prior to the challenge!