The first PG challenge of the year, 3 day PPSE Jan. 23 01:00 UTC, to Jan. 26 01:00 UTC
The FB challenge webpage: https://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=10425
 
From the challenge webpage.
 
Welcome to Hilbert's Birthday Challenge: 3 day PPSE from January 23 01:00 UTC to January 26 01:00 UTC

I'd like to begin by thanking Michael Gutierrez for four years!!! of hosting challenges! Let's wish him luck in university and his future endeavors beyond PrimeGrid.

PrimeGrid will celebrate David Hilbert's 162nd birthday with the inaugural challenge for the 2024 challenge series: a 3 day PPSE challenge from January 23 01:00 UTC to January 26 01:00 UTC. David Hilbert was a German mathematician and one of the most influential mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries. His work made the first foray into the foundations of mathematics, from proof theory to reverse mathematics, and Hilbert's 8th Problem, the Riemann Hypothesis, remains one of the most important unsolved problems in mathematics, underpinning results from number theory to cryptography.


To participate in the challenge:
 

• Wait until the challenge timeframe starts (or set your BOINC Client download schedule accordingly), as tasks issued before the challenge will not count.
• In your PrimeGrid preferences section, select only the Proth Prime Search Extended LLR (PPSE) project.

Important reminders:
 

• Note on LLR2 tasks: LLR2 has eliminated the need for a full doublecheck task on each workunit, but has replaced it with a short verification task. Expect to receive a few tasks about 1% of normal length.
• The typical deadline for some of these WUs is longer than the challenge time-frame, so make sure your computer is able to return the WUs within 3 days. Only tasks issued AFTER the start time and returned BEFORE the finish time will be counted.
• At the Conclusion of the Challenge: We kindly ask users "moving on" to ABORT their tasks instead of DETACHING, RESETTING, or PAUSING. ABORTING tasks allows them to be recycled immediately; thus a much faster "clean up" to the end of a Challenge. DETACHING, RESETTING, and PAUSING tasks causes them to remain in limbo until they EXPIRE. Therefore, we must wait until tasks expire to send them out to be completed. Please consider either completing what's in the queue or ABORTING them. Thanks!

Oops 😬 tough getting old. 😜

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“Dear Primefinder,

Congratulations! Our records indicate that a computer registered by you has found a unique prime number. This computer is assigned to the PPS (LLR). Since candidates on this subproject are not large enough to report to the Top 5000 Primes List, your prime is visible immediately.

Workunit 1029087407 : 1923*2^1812457+1 (545608 digits)

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us and we will surely resolve any problems.
Once again, congratulations on your find! Thank you for participating in PrimeGrid.
Sincerely,
The PrimeGrid Staff”


About 3 hours into the challenge.

Dear Primefinder,

Congratulations! Our records indicate that a computer registered by you has found a unique prime number. This computer is running BOINC, is attached to the PrimeGrid project, and is assigned to the PPS (LLR). Since candidates on this subproject are not large enough to report to the Top 5000 Primes List, your prime is visible immediately.
Workunit 1032484064 : 3441*2^1824996+1 (549383 digits)

bill1024
Dear Primefinder,

Congratulations! Our records indicate that a computer registered by you has found a unique prime number. This computer is running BOINC, is attached to the PrimeGrid project, and is assigned to the PPS (LLR). Since candidates on this subproject are not large enough to report to the Top 5000 Primes List, your prime is visible immediately.
Workunit 1032484064 : 3441*2^1824996+1 (549383 digits)

Nice bill, yours is bigger than mine..
12 hours to go.