Planned maintenance tonight
Tonight we might have a downtime because of some maintenance in the datacenter. Fill your caches!
[update] After the maintenance the servers did not respond so we had to do a hard reboot. Hopefully everything is fine now.
24 Aug 2010 15:11:01 UTC
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The Dog Days of Summer in 24 hours
When will the end come to this summer heat??? As soon as Sirius is separated from the sun!!! In 24 hours, come join us to help hasten Sirius' departure and thus, bring back cooler days. A 48 hour Challenge is being offered on the 321 Prime Search (Sieve). For more information, please see this forum thread.
19 Aug 2010 18:17:32 UTC
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The Dog Days of Summer in 2 days
The time draws near to the chase. Sirius must be driven away from the Sun so that we can rid ourselves of this long hot sweltering summer (Northern Hemisphere). In 2 days, the Dog Days of Summer Challenge will begin. The 48 hour Challenge is being offered on PrimeGrid's 321 Prime Search (Sieve) application. Please come join us as we quicken the return of cooler days. :) For more information, please see this forum thread.
18 Aug 2010 14:18:51 UTC
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PrimeGrid Donation Drive 2010 Fall
PrimeGrid is a project that is not financed by universities or commercial entities. In fact, all of our funding comes from the community, most of it through the donations page and a small amount through Google ads on the site. In the previous months donations were enough to cover all expenses running the website, however, the last few months have been particularly bad and just paying for server collocation has cut deep into our emergency funds.
It is never easy to be asking for money, but it has come to the point where we have to. We currently have money to keep the servers running for two more months. After that, we either shut down or throttle down significantly, which would be a shame having established PrimeGrid as a significant power in the prime number community, and having received uncountable hours of support from the members.
Therefore, we are launching PrimeGrid Donation Drive 2010 Fall. We have set the target to €4000, which would allow us continue the service for a whole year and would also restore our emergency funds.
No matter how small the donation, it still helps! However, we have to keep the minimum amount at €2 because of PayPal fees (if you prefer to donate through bank transfer, we have bank accounts in the Netherlands, Germany, Poland and Lithuania - please write a private message to me and the details will be sent to you).
To help keep the project running, please visit donations page, select the donation drive item and make a donation that you feel is suitable. Thank you in advance!
Update 2010-08-17 07:30 Big thanks to everyone who has donated already, we have almost reached 15% of the target amount. In addition, we now have a German bank account for direct transfer. If you want to make a direct deposit, please let me know by a private message.
Update 2010-08-18 15:30 By now we have almost reached 30%! Thank you for incredible support! In addition, Polish bank account has been added to the list for direct transfers.
16 Aug 2010 15:18:22 UTC
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The Dog Days of Summer Challenge
The Dog Days are approaching! In just 10 days, PrimeGrid's Challenge series continues with the Dog Days of Summer Challenge. Please come join us in ushering an end to the hot sweltering days of summer. A 2 day (20-22 August) Challenge is being offered on PrimeGrid's 321 Prime Search (Sieve) application. Builds are available for Linux, Mac and Windows. For more information, please see this forum thread.
10 Aug 2010 13:37:09 UTC
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