Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search

[atomic7732]

http://www.mersenne.org/

It's kind of like BOINC...  

Not much really to say.

If you'd like to join the Universe Sandbox Forum team, you should just be able to click here and you'll join (assuming you have an account and are logged in already).

[Darvince]

wut it's been around 16 years

[FiahOwl]

This message is only viewable with Universe Sandbox Galaxy Edition. Access it and much more with promo-code '66378'.

[atomic7732]

Something that's probably blocked for your computer, so it doesn't really matter.

[vh]

kol i have had this running in my background for years and totally forgot about it

[Darvince]

kol i have had this running in my background for 0 attoseconds and totally forgot about it

[atomic7732]

bump i'm running this again

it's basically a program that runs in the background and uses excess computing power to find/factor very large mersenne numbers to find primes

i have two cpu's running basically constantly, one is looking for new primes first test, and the other is set to do trial factoring

[atomic7732]

#joinme

[TheMooCows]

bump i'm running this again

it's basically a program that runs in the background and uses excess computing power to find/factor very large mersenne numbers to find primes

i have two cpu's running basically constantly, one is looking for new primes first test, and the other is set to do trial factoring

It has the added bonus of making your computer sound like it will explode daily!

[atomic7732]

this is only like 3 weeks of data

also i'm concerned that my laptop (?) never finished its assignment from 2012 to 2014 (when it died) - it got to 66%