Find factors of the Mersenne number M(3326400) = 23326400 - 1 in ElevenSmooth. Note: this project is active, but the project website is not updated unless a major event occurs. The website was last updated on February 19, 2009.
On February 1, 2004 the project "found a 42 digit factor of M(5280) using GMP-ECM with B=3M. This is expected to qualify for 9th place in Paul Zimmerman's
Top Ten This Year list." On April 4, 2004, the project found P35, the first known primitive factor of M(15840). On May 14, 2004, the project found P34, the second known factor of M(10395). On June 9, 2004, the project found P25, the second known factor of the primitive part of M(66528). On June 12, 2004, the project found a P49 factor for M(1485), the largest factor found by ElevenSmooth using ECM. On July 20, 2004, the project completed the factorization of M(3960). On September 18, 2004, the project found a P28 factor of M(95040): this is the first known factor of the primitive part of M(95040). On October 19, 2004, the project found a P36 factor of M(11880), "the second known factor for the primitive part of this number." On July 28, 2005, the project found a P35 factor of M(47520), the third factor the project has found for the primitive part of M(47520). In early December, 2005. the project found a 41-digit factor of M(6336). In March, 2008, the project completed the factorization of M(1575). On May 7, 2008, the project completed the factorization of M(2376). On July 16, 2008, the project found a P34 factor of M(5400) (using ECM at the B1=1M level). This factor reduces the unfactored residual from C406 to C373. This is the second factor ElevenSmooth has found for this number. On November 15, 2008, the project found a P37 factor of M(100800). This factor reduces the unfactored residual from C6925 to C6889. See news of more recent factor discoveries on the project's main page.
To participate in the project,
download the ECMclient application and configure it according to the directions on the download page (if you already have the ECM or ECMclient application installed, you only need to reconfigure it to use server=wblipp.dynu.com and port=8194). Unix users can
follow instructions to create an ECM client for Unix. Once ECMclient is configured, it contacts the ElevenSmooth project server to get work units and to return results. It processes a work unit for 30 minutes by default, but you can change the processing time by changing the maxfreq parameter. The project supports users behind firewalls and possibly proxy servers. It supports modem users with a little bit of work. See the help page for
information about using firewalls, proxy servers, and modems.
The project also has a
Special Project sub-project for users who have contributed at least one full week to the main ECM project. The Special Project "uses GIMPS' program Prime95 to work on all primitives of M(3326400) simultaneously. If any ECM work is going to be done on the largest composites, Prime95 is much faster. The subfactor composites are then tested 'for free.' However, even with Prime95, it takes a long time to run ECM curves on large numbers." Users who qualify for this project will be invited by email to join it.
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