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[SRBase] base S298 Megaprime

Sightus@CAU, a member of the team Planet 3DNow! found a megaprime for base S298.
The prime 168*298^566667+1 has 1.402.059 digits and entered the T5k PrimePages.

View article · Mon, 5 Oct 2026 08:50:06 +0000

[PrimeGrid] Suzuki's Birthday Challenge

From October 2 17:00 to October 7 17:00 PrimeGrid will be running a 5 day challenge on the GFN-19 project. For more information, please see this forum thread.

View article · Wed, 30 Sep 2026 03:37:56 +0000

[YAFU] Aliquot sequence 3772368 has terminated!!!

View article · Sat, 26 Sep 2026 20:42:44 +0000

[SRBase] BOINC Games challenge 09/25/2026 04:00 (UTC)-09/28/2026 04:00 (UTC)

The project was selected. Good luck everyone!

View article · Fri, 25 Sep 2026 07:12:32 +0000

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Server outage
The server that hosts the BOINC web site, Science United, and BOINC Central, was offline from 3 Sept until today. There was a maintenance issue that arose suddenly, and took much longer than we anticipated. We apologize for the inconvenience. If something like this happens again we'll try to find a substitute server to keep everyone informed.
10 Sep 2026, 7:49:25 UTC · Discuss

BOINC Dashboard available for Linux
BOINC Dashboard is lightweight, self-hosted web dashboard for monitoring a BOINC client running on a local machine, without needing to open BOINC Manager and reconnect every time.
23 Aug 2026, 1:32:10 UTC · Discuss

Willy de Zutter has passed away
We are deeply saddened to learn of Willy's passing; some details are here. Willy was a staunch and tireless supporter of BOINC from its earliest days; he created BAM! and BOINCstats, widely-used account manager and statistics sites. He will be remembered, and missed.
28 Jul 2026, 21:00:01 UTC · Discuss

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