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FTA article: it took "1745 hours, or a bit less than 73 days" on a 1900 MHz Athlon 64.

Also:

"The sieving database was 4.9 gigabytes and contained just over 51 million relations. - During the "filtering" phase, Msieve was using about 2.5 gigabytes of RAM. - The final processing involved finding the null space of a 5.4 million x 5.4 million matrix."




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