Another Titanic Prime!

From PrimeGrid:


"Congratulations! Our records indicate that a computer registered by you has found a unique prime number. This computer is running BOINC, is attached to the PrimeGrid project, and is assigned to the Sophie Germain Prime Search. What makes this prime unique is that it's large enough to enter the Top 5000 List in Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database.
Since you have auto-reporting selected, the following prime was submitted on your behalf:

Added 110379 : 225597278625*2^1290000+1 (388341 digits)

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us and we will surely resolve any problems"

Bargin HP Proliant DL380 G4

I picked up a used HP Proliant DL380 G4 on Ebay to add to the "farm". This machine comes with two dual-core Xeon 3.4G CPU's and 6Gigs of RAM. It also has six SCSI drives that I have set-up as 3 separate RAID1 volumes.
I have configured it to run Ubuntu 64-bit 12.04 and at the moment it is attached only to PrimeGrid with the hopes of finding another Titanic Prime.
The only hassle is that it is a little on the loud side ...

Something big this way comes...

More details soon!

Top 1000 Titanic Prime discovered with PrimeGrid

"Congratulations! Our records indicate that a computer registered by you has found a unique prime number. This computer is running BOINC, is attached to the PrimeGrid project, and is assigned to the Sophie Germain Prime Search. What makes this prime unique is that it's large enough to enter the Top 5000 List in Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database.
Since you have auto-reporting selected, the following prime was submitted on your behalf:
Added 110130 : 180160106877*2^1290000+1 (388340 digits)"

Long over-due update...

I have actually acquired some new hardware for the "farm". There is an Intel Xeon E3120@3.1GHz  with 8gigs RAM and a solid state drive. This machine is running 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04LTS with SSSE3 optimized SETI application.
The second machine is an Intel Pentium G850@2.9Ghz with 4gigs of RAM running 64-bit Windows 7. At this stage, its still running the stock applications.
I am still concentrating on SETI@Home but am still doing a bit of Collatz and QMC (about 10%).
Some of the older machines will be retired in a month or two.

2 million map tiles!

I have finally reached the 2 million map tiles benchmark with TilesAtHome for OpenStreetMaps (www.osm.org)