2050 to 2100M complete to 15k. Reserving 2100M to 2200M.

On the 500M to 2000M sieve, 28k to 29k is complete. Reserving 29k to 30k.

-Curtis

29k to 30k complete on k=500M to 2G.
Pausing for now in favor of getting PFGW script run to 2.5G.
-Curtis

[QUOTE=VBCurtis;322317]29k to 30k complete on k=500M to 2G.
Pausing for now in favor of getting PFGW script run to 2.5G.
-Curtis[/QUOTE]

Have you sent me the primes for n=29K-30K yet? I haven't received them.

Whoops! Primes have now been sent.

While I have paused my LLR work at 30k on the 500-2000M range, I have sieved to 20G on 30-100k, and welcome anyone to request files to do some testing on this range while I push our explored range up to 2500M.

Reserving 2050-2500M up to 30k.
-Curtis

Lennart has completed k=500M-2G for n=30K-35K. 851 primes were found.

Lennart has completed k=500M-2G for n=35K-40K. 655 primes were found.

Lennart has completed k=500M-2G for n=40K-50K. 944 primes were found.

Lennart has completed k=500M-2G for n=50K-100K. 1833 primes were found; 2345 k's remain for the k-range. A tremendous work by Lennart! :bow:

Here are some stats and extrapolations: For this k-range, 7805 k's were remaining at n=25K and 5460 k's were found prime for n=25K-100K so almost exactly 70% of k's were eliminated.

Based on a reduction of k's remaining of 70% for every 4X increase in the n-value, here are some estimates of k's remaining for the entire base:
n=25K; 325,000
n=100K; 97,500
n=400K; 29,250
n=1.6M; 8,775
n=6.4M; 2,633
n=25.6M; 790
n=102.4M; 237

Of course, the k's become progressively lower average weight as the n-range gets higher so this moderately underestimates the k's remaining. A rough estimate at n=~100M would be ~500 k's remaining.

A bold public prediction: Due to its extremely heavy weight, Riesel base 3 will be proven at a lower n-value than Riesel base 2!

Curtis has completed k=2.15G-2.3G to n=15K. 1283 k's are remaining for the range. He is still testing and continuing all of k=2.05G-2.5G to n=30K.

Gary-
Thanks for making sense of the jumble of files I sent you. I think I better understand now how to start a base and produce simpler files for you to administrate.

I expected I'd have 2050 to 2500 done to 30k or 35k by the time Lennart got the big range to 100k. I had no idea the CPU cycles Lennart would bring to this base!! I am currently at 2350 on the script, running at a pace of 25M per week; so, I should finish 2500 to 15k around 1 March.

I will then test 2050 to 2500 to 30k in March, and then sieve 30k to 100k for this range, sharing the file with anyone who wishes to help the project along.
-Curtis

Now to extend the tested range from ~2G to ~63G.