I have been interested in prime numbers since I was very young. Later, I read about Mersenne primes, perfect numbers, twin primes, and other such topics in a book titled Unsolved Mysteries, which I found very fascinating. After buying a computer in middle school, I started paying attention to Prime95, a distributed computing program for Mersenne primes. I had tried running it before, but because computer configurations were low at that time, I usually didn’t persist after reaching about 20% completion.
After starting university, I got a quad-core laptop. Around October last year, I ran this program again. Since it is quad-core, it can test four numbers simultaneously. After half a year of operation, I finally finished testing the first number today: 2^{29363731}-1. As expected, this is not a prime number. Regardless, it is the first test I have completed, and it can be considered an independent result of my own. Haha, just a bit of self-entertainment.
The tests for the second, third, and fourth numbers are still in progress, with varying degrees of completion. They should be finished soon, and I will share the results with everyone then.
The log shows that it was completed at 10:11 AM this morning:
Sending result to server: UID: bojone/bojone, M29363731 is not prime. Res64: 216CDDA1A8E59DB8. We4: DD94A916,19701102,00000000, AID:
[Comm thread Apr 8 10:11]
[Comm thread Apr 8 10:11] PrimeNet success code with additional info:
[Comm thread Apr 8 10:11] LL test successfully completes double-check of M29363731
[Comm thread Apr 8 10:11] CPU credit is 29.2006 GHz-days.
[Comm thread Apr 8 10:11] Done communicating with server.