I had followed his posts as well. My condolences to his family. LaurV made a great point regarding a contribution in his name to something he would have appreciated from the forum management.

I am out of town for 2 weeks. I will return Sept. 24th. In the mean time I am locally keeping the web pages up to date on my laptop but am unable to upload them to my server due to a firewall. They will be updated for public viewing when I get back. I will keep the statuses in the recommended and 1k bases up to date.

[QUOTE=gd_barnes;556442]To all,

I was informed today that our long-time contributor, Ian Gunn, aka MyDogBuster, died last week. :sad:

Ian had been a loyal follower and contributor of both NPLB and CRUS since their inception over 12 years ago.

His humor and helpful nature on the projects will be sorely missed.

Sincerely,
Gary Barnes[/QUOTE]


Wow, that is bad news. RIP Ian.
At least we know of his passing. With most members we probably wouldn't and they would simply disappear.

I will be out of town until Nov. 23rd. I am keeping the web pages updated locally while I am gone. They will be uploaded to the server after I get back.

Although not part of this specific project, PrimeGrid knocked off another k for R2: 146561*2^11280802-1 is prime.

Was noticed in the [url='https://www.rieselprime.de/ziki/PrimeGrid_Riesel_Problem']Wiki[/url].

I will be out of town until Dec. 18th. I am keeping the web pages updated locally while I am gone. They will be uploaded to the server after I get back.

I will be out of town until about Jan. 19th. I am keeping the web pages updated locally while I am gone. They will be uploaded to the server after I get back.

If you see an asterisk "*" next to a base in our recommended thread that indicates a sieve file is available but a link to the file is not shown on the reservations page, PM me and I will send it to you.

I will be out of town until March 5th. I am keeping the web pages updated locally while I am gone. They will be uploaded to the server after I get back.

I have some exciting news:

The Riesel base 2 2nd conjecture has been added to the project!

This makes the Riesel and Sierp sides at CRUS equal in that regard and gives the project a base 2 effort that it can work on as its own. I have searched it to n=1M and there are 45 k's remaining. I will continue to n=2M. After that I will release it to the project.

Happy future hunting! :smile:

I will be out of town until about June 16th. I am keeping the web pages updated locally while I am gone. They will be uploaded to the server after I get back.

If you see an asterisk "*" next to a base in our recommended thread that indicates a sieve file is available but a link to the file is not shown on the reservations page, PM me and I will send it to you.

CRUS has moved into the #2 spot on the top-5000 site in primes found here:
[URL]https://primes.utm.edu/bios/top20.php?type=project&by=PrimesRank[/URL]

We now have a new place at the top of the Prime Search Projects list here at Mersenneforum! :smile:

Thank you to all of our loyal contributors who have volunteered your time and resources to the project!