Top program sorted by number of primes

At this site we keep several lists of primes, most notably the list of the 5,000 largest known primes. Who found the most of these record primes? We keep separate counts for persons, projects and programs. To see these lists click on 'number' to the right.

Clearly one 100,000,000 digit prime is much harder to discover than quite a few 100,000 digit primes. Based on the usual estimates we score the top persons, provers and projects by adding ‎(log n)³ log log n‎ for each of their primes n. Click on 'score' to see these lists.

Finally, to make sense of the score values, we normalize them by dividing by the current score of the 5000th prime. See these by clicking on 'normalized score' in the table on the right.

rank program primes score 1 Jean Penné's LLR [special, plus, minus] 4713 56.6907 2 Geoffrey Reynolds' srsieve [sieve] 2829 55.9374 3 Reynolds and Brazier's PSieve [sieve] 2178 54.5183 4 David Underbakke's AthGFNSieve [sieve] 1682 55.2533 5 Yves Gallot's GeneFer [prp, special] 1673 55.2433 6 Anand Nair's GFNSvCUDA sieve [sieve] 1672 55.2436 7 LLR2 [other] 1159 54.8912 8 OpenPFGW (a.k.a. PrimeForm) [other, sieve, prp, special, plus, minus, classical] 574 52.7455 9 Paul Jobling's NewPGen [sieve] 393 51.4257 10 Marcel Martin's Primo [general] 328 46.6639 11 Pavel Atnashev's PRST [] 243 55.1741 12 CM a fast ECPP implementation Andreas Enge [general] 113 41.9004 13 EMsieve [sieve] 103 55.0600 14 Robert Gerbicz's PolySieve [sieve] 63 48.8309 15 George Woltman's Prime95 [special] 56 57.7014 16 Geoffrey Reynolds' gcwsieve [sieve] 55 54.1055 17 Yves Gallot's Proth.exe [other, special, plus, minus, classical] 51 51.4929 18 Yves Gallot's Cyclo [special] 50 54.9661 19 Anand Nair's CycloSvCUDA sieve [sieve] 41 55.0081 20 MultiSieve/mtsieve [sieve] 35 53.0508

Notes:

The list above show the programs that are used the most (either by number or score). In some ways this is useless because we are often comparing apples and oranges, that is why the comments in brackets attempt to say what each program does. See the help page for some explanation of these vague categories

Number of primes

When counting primes we decided that if three people (persons) went together to find a prime, each should get credit for 1/3 of a prime. The same is true for projects, however programs get full credit for each prime (to encourage honest reporting of what programs where used). Persons, programs and projects are three separate categories and do not compete against each other.

For example, suppose the persons 'Carmody' and 'Caldwell' worked together and used the program 'PRP' to test candidates selected by the 'GFN 2^13 Sieving project', then completed their proofs using 'Proth.exe'. Then the persons 'Carmody' and 'Caldwell' would get 1/2 credit for each prime found; but the project 'GFN 2^13 Sieving project' and the programs 'PRP' and 'Proth.exe' would each get full credit.<\p>