Goals and Milestones

[mdettweiler]

Originally Posted by masser

With rogue's recent Sierpinski prime, we have completed goal number 1: Less than 1 million Sierpinski candidates in the dat file, less than 3 million Riesel candidates and hence, less than 4 million total candidates.

The Riesel queue is currently at n=278000. An overestimate of the number of remaining Riesel tests up to 200,000 digits would be 12000. I will make some more Riesel manual reservation files available soon. We can probably complete goal number 2 by the end of the year.

KUTGW!

So, I take it the priority is now on the Riesel side once again?

[masser]

Originally Posted by masser

Two New Goals:

1. The dat file contains slightly more than 4 million candidates. It will not be long before we have less than 4 million candidates. So this goal has three parts...
a. Get the dat file down to less than 4 million candidates.
b. Get the Riesel component of the dat file down to less than 3 million candidates.
c. Get the Sierpinski component of the dat file down to less than 1 million candidates.

We are very close to completing part b (ltd can check this - it may already be completed). I think with my continued sieving surge, we can complete part a by the end of summer. Part c will probably require that we find a Sierpinski prime or two.

2. Reach 200,000 digits (n \approx 286000) on the Riesel and Sierpinski LLRNET queues. This is a lot of work, but with all of the manual testing currently on going, we can probably reach this goal by the end of the year.

We recently completed goal #2 above. Good work, everyone! I will post new goals in a few days. Any ideas?

[masser]

1. Find 11 primes - We currently have 211 sequences in the dat file; 11 primes will reduce this to 200.

2. Sieve up to 2*10^14. We are almost at 10^14 now.

ETA: With significant effort, both of the above could be completed by the end of 2009. As always, KUTGW.