Web Cooperative Unearths Top Prime Number
News The number, with more than 6.3 million digits, is the sixth so far uncovered by the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS). Mersenne primes are a particular variety named after Marin Mersenne, a French monk born in 1588 who investigated a...
[December 3, 2003, 10:05]
Distributed Computing Enjoys Prime Success
News The discovery, made Dec.and confirmed Saturday, marked the second time this year that a cooperative computing project called the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) has found a new largest prime.
[December 28, 2005, 11:45]
Distributed Computing's Prime Moment
News Cameron's computer found the number, but he shares credit with others: George Woltman, who founded the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) and wrote the search software, and Entropia founder Scott Korowski, who created the network system...
[December 13, 2001, 13:44]
Making Charity Safe For IT Administrators
News In addition, DBAN meets the following disk-wiping standards: Canadian RCMP TSSIT OPS-II, American DoD 5220-22.M, Gutmann, PRNG Stream, and Mersenne Twister. This is a growing concern for organisations, particularly when you consider the rate at...
[April 25, 2005, 12:35]
Google Uses Toolbar To Unlock Genes
News Distributed computing began with more abstruse projects, however, such as hunts for Mersenne prime numbers, optimal Golomb rulers and Fermat numbers. Google has begun an experiment that could turn its modest toolbar software into a supercomputer to...
[March 25, 2002, 9:33]
