Big Primes News

Distributed computing finale

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:49:52 GMT

We are retiring the distibuted computing client. Thankyou all for your help and processing cycles. Watch this space for an open source GPU client coming soon...

Sum Of Digits

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:42:34 GMT

We have added a page that shows the sum of the digits of prime numbers. Click here

Thanks to everyone for donating com

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:07:50 GMT

Thanks to everyone for donating computer time, we are now upto 1.4 billion primes. We now also have a facebook group where you get news updates and show your support for the project!

1 billion primes

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:06:52 GMT

Thanks for all your help! We made it to one billion prime numbers! Please keep on donating processor time as we still have plenty of storage for the prime numbers. here. Our database is now more than double the size (300 million primes) and we've put in the capacity to keep growing. To view our current progress please visit the status page.

Distributed computing

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:05:40 GMT

It's been a while but we have been very busy. We've put together a distributed computing client written in javascript. If you wish to donate computing time and process some primes then please go here. Our database is now more than double the size (300 million primes) and we've put in the capacity to keep growing. To view our current progress please visit the status page.

Forum has been added

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:04:00 GMT

We've now added a Forum which can be found on the navigation links on the left.

Download links are now working

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:03:16 GMT

Someone named Kirk just emailed me to say the download links wern't working. I've now fixed this. Thanks Kirk!

Code Improvements

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:02:39 GMT

Added much faster code to the cruncher so that we can handle more of your page loads! Lots of little updates and some reorganizing of the site.

Added the downloads section

Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:01:41 GMT

Added the Downloads section.

Added the Fibonacci number archive

Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:00:55 GMT

Added the Fibonacci number archive containing the first 70331 Fibonacci numbers.

44th Mersenne Prime

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:00:35 GMT

Added the 44th Mersenne Prime number to the archive.

The Archives are now more organized

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:00:05 GMT

The Archives are now more organized.

100 million primes

Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:59:24 GMT

We have managed to archive the first 100 million prime numbers.

75 million primes

Fri, 20 May 2005 09:58:51 GMT

We have managed to archive the first 75 million prime numbers.

50 million primes

Mon, 16 May 2005 09:58:25 GMT

We have managed to archive the first 50 million prime numbers.

10 million primes

Sat, 14 May 2005 09:57:53 GMT

We have managed to archive the first 10 million prime numbers.

1 million primes

Fri, 13 May 2005 09:57:20 GMT

We have managed to archive the first 1 million prime numbers.