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[Minecraft@Home] Maintance Saturday 2026-05-23 | 9 AM UTC

Hi all,

Heads up: The Minecraft@Home infrastructure will be down for maintenance tomorrow, Saturday (May 23rd) starting at ~ 8:30 AM UTC, for some hardware and software updates.

Downtime will last for a few hours. I can't give an exact ETA, but I'll do my best to get everything back up and running as fast as I can.

Cheers,
Philipp

View article · Fri, 22 May 2026 18:55:18 +0000

[YAFU] Aliquot sequence 3622890 has terminated!!!

View article · Thu, 21 May 2026 20:02:56 +0000

[SRBase] LL-dc test started

This is the first config and output/daemon test for linux and windows on AMD and nvidia cards.
There could be something wrong so don't expect too much.

Collecting GPU infos, errors...

batch config:

- max_tasks_in_progress = 1
- 7min on a 5500XT, faster on better GPUs
- deadline 4h + 1d grace_period

Requirement:
- cl_khr_fp64
- min_opencl_version 2.0+

View article · Thu, 21 May 2026 17:21:50 +0000

[SRBase] base S48 - 2 Megaprimes

[SG-FC] dingdong, a member of the team SETI.Germany found a megaprime for base S48.
The prime 561*48^711808+1 has 1.196.724 digits and entered the T5k PrimePages.

Dukebox, a member of the team Dutch Power Cows found a megaprime for base S48.
The prime 153*48^825719+1 has 1.388.236 digits and entered the T5k PrimePages.

View article · Thu, 21 May 2026 07:50:28 +0000

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