GIMPS

Free Mersenne Research Software

The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, or GIMPS, is a collaborative project of volunteers, who use Prime95 and MPrime, software that can be downloaded from the Internet for free, in order to search for Mersenne prime numbers. The project was founded and the prime testing software was written by George Woltman. Scott Kurowski wrote the PrimeNet Server that supports the research to demonstrate Entropia distributed computing software, a company he founded in 1997.

License: special.

Tags: number theory, primality tests.

Programs: MPrime, Prime95, SPrime.

Links

Homepage: http://mersenne.org/freesoft.htm.

Mailing lists

Support: http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime.