Nice Pie bcavnaugh, Thanks
 
Stats are much appreciated Bill..

bill1024
I am about to get mowed over by Steve, wave as you go by!

I would not say mowed over, more like politely passing you...
I will wave as I go by..

tanner2
Sorry I'm late, don't know where my head has been lately.
 

No worries, Appreciate your help as always... never too late..

Primes found so far (including a few that haven't been announced yet):

GFN15: 45
GFN16: 5
GFN 17: 5
 
Two days done, and one to go!


Challenge: Pierre de Fermat's Birthday
App: 22 (GFN-15)
(As of 2017-11-19 12:43:41 UTC)

675478 tasks have been sent out. [CPU/GPU/anonymous_platform: 543485 (80%) / 131937 (20%) / 56 (0%)]

Of those tasks that have been sent out:

14383 (2%) came back with some kind of an error. [11409 (2%) / 2974 (0%) / 0 (0%)]
543773 (81%) have returned a successful result. [423445 (63%) / 120276 (18%) / 52 (0%)]
117379 (17%) are still in progress. [108679 (16%) / 8696 (1%) / 4 (0%)]

Of the tasks that have been returned successfully:

90528 (17%) are pending validation. [71721 (13%) / 18799 (3%) / 8 (0%)]
453234 (83%) have been successfully validated. [351720 (65%) / 101470 (19%) / 44 (0%)]
9 (0%) were invalid. [4 (0%) / 5 (0%) / 0 (0%)]
2 (0%) are inconclusive. [0 (0%) / 2 (0%) / 0 (0%)]

The current leading edge (i.e., latest work unit for which work has actually been sent out to a host) is b=72888586. The leading edge was at b=68406636 at the beginning of the challenge. Since the challenge started, the leading edge has advanced 6.55% as much as it had prior to the challenge!


Challenge: Pierre de Fermat's Birthday
App: 23 (GFN-16)
(As of 2017-11-19 12:45:00 UTC)

97406 tasks have been sent out. [CPU/GPU/anonymous_platform: 30775 (32%) / 66631 (68%) / 0 (0%)]

Of those tasks that have been sent out:

6345 (7%) came back with some kind of an error. [3207 (3%) / 3138 (3%) / 0 (0%)]
76079 (78%) have returned a successful result. [17957 (18%) / 58122 (60%) / 0 (0%)]
14988 (15%) are still in progress. [9614 (10%) / 5375 (6%) / 0 (0%)]

Of the tasks that have been returned successfully:

10887 (14%) are pending validation. [2419 (3%) / 8468 (11%) / 0 (0%)]
65186 (86%) have been successfully validated. [15538 (20%) / 49648 (65%) / 0 (0%)]
4 (0%) were invalid. [0 (0%) / 4 (0%) / 0 (0%)]
2 (0%) are inconclusive. [0 (0%) / 2 (0%) / 0 (0%)]

The current leading edge (i.e., latest work unit for which work has actually been sent out to a host) is b=27452208. The leading edge was at b=27125836 at the beginning of the challenge. Since the challenge started, the leading edge has advanced 1.20% as much as it had prior to the challenge!


Challenge: Pierre de Fermat's Birthday
App: 24 (GFN-17-Low)
(As of 2017-11-19 12:45:20 UTC)

253794 tasks have been sent out. [CPU/GPU/anonymous_platform: 13318 (5%) / 240476 (95%) / 0 (0%)]

Of those tasks that have been sent out:

21347 (8%) came back with some kind of an error. [2516 (1%) / 18831 (7%) / 0 (0%)]
201386 (79%) have returned a successful result. [6366 (3%) / 195020 (77%) / 0 (0%)]
31081 (12%) are still in progress. [4436 (2%) / 26646 (10%) / 0 (0%)]

Of the tasks that have been returned successfully:

23294 (12%) are pending validation. [514 (0%) / 22780 (11%) / 0 (0%)]
178054 (88%) have been successfully validated. [5843 (3%) / 172211 (86%) / 0 (0%)]
30 (0%) were invalid. [8 (0%) / 22 (0%) / 0 (0%)]
8 (0%) are inconclusive. [1 (0%) / 7 (0%) / 0 (0%)]

The current leading edge (i.e., latest work unit for which work has actually been sent out to a host) is b=10438318. The leading edge was at b=9585574 at the beginning of the challenge. Since the challenge started, the leading edge has advanced 8.90% as much as it had prior to the challenge!


The individual battle for first place is very, very close, as is the team battle for third place. Due to the nature of this particular challenge, modern CPUs don't have the advantage they normally do, so both old and AMD CPUs can compete on a relatively level playing ground. It looks like people have been putting everything they've got into this challenge!

Any Team Members Find I Prime?
We should hit 10,000,000 before the end.

I hope I did not forget anyone.....
Sorry If I did....
 
 
Crunch on...

HK-Steve

bill1024
I am about to get mowed over by Steve, wave as you go by!

Indicator is flashing, and waving with both hands, so glad I have a self driving car...

OK Steve I know I am Next but you only have few hours left
Maybe just enough power to maybe move us into 4th

I knew being 3 hours late would hurt.
I fell asleep trying to stay up to 7AM. Just rested my eyes for a moment and boom, it was 10AM.
 
Good job everyone, it's almost over, just over 12 more hours left
 

yay doing great! Holding a strong 5th but we're also close to 4th! <4m difference with 12 hours to go O_O.

Pie Time

Just got a very nice email. Yay

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 Generalized Fermat Prime Search n=17 Low (GFN-17-Low). What makes this prime unique is that it's large enough to enter the Top 5000 List in Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database.

Since you have auto-reporting selected, the following prime was submitted on your behalf:

Added 124006 : 10453790^131072+1 (920031 digits)

This prime was found on this workunit which will automatically show as a prime result after verification by the Largest Known Primes Database.

Thanks for the stats pie Bcavnaugh - and nice letter HK!
 
I think the Team did great 
just wish I would have started at the beginning of the challenge!
 

If anyone was using CPUs for this challenge, please bring them over to WCG as we are not doing too well.  Currently only 24th but with potential to move up to 19th or so with a last-minute push.

robbysites
I have every available cpu running WCG.
 
Thanks Punchy
 
I would like to ask a question regarding my laptop. It is a Dell with an I7 cpu and an SSD I swapped for the spinner. The problem is now out of the blue it will show a screen saver and then shut down. It has never done this before and I selected never on all the power settings. It is running 64bit Windows 10.
Any ideas??  Help!!
It is not overheating.

I have had the same issue, the screen saver fails to load properly,
I disabled the screen saver and had no further issues..
 
Just added 120 Cores to WCG here..

Congratulations on the gfn17 prime, they are large primes.
So it will stay in the book of the largest 5000 primes for quite a while before being pushed out.
 
Good job everyone.
 
I started moving over to WCG early last night when I was sure 5th was locked in.
Had to shut down some GPUs also, how was warm, too warm.