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This project has been rather successful: it has found a total of 7 Mersenne primes, each of which was the largest known prime at the time of discovery. The largest known prime as of May 2004, is 2^24,036,583 − 1. This prime was discovered on May 15, 2004 by Josh Findley. Refer to the article on Mersenne primes numbers for the complete list of GIMPS successes.

As of May 2004, GIMPS has a sustained throughput of approximately 14 teraflops, earning the GIMPS virtual computerIn general terms, a virtual machine in computer science is software that creates an environment between the computer platform and the end user in which the end user can operate software. Specifically, the term virtual machine has several distinct meanings a firm place among the most powerful supercomputerA supercomputer is a device for turning compute-bound problems into I/O-bound problems. Ken Batcher Cray-2; world's fastest computer 1985 1990. A supercomputer is a computer that leads the world in terms of processing capacity, particularly speed of calcus in the world.

Technically the GIMPS software is not open source, since it has a restriction which most open source/ free softwareThis article refers to free software as defined by the Free Software Foundation. For software available free of charge, see Freeware. The term free software refers to software which, once obtained, can be used, copied, studied, modified and redistributed. groups find unacceptable—users must abide by the prize distribution terms. This restriction will become meaningless when the EFF prizes are claimed.

1 See also

• George Woltman
• Scott Kurowski
• Entropia
• Mathematics
• Distributed computing
• Prime95
• MPrime

2 External links

• GIMPS Home Page (www.mersenne.org)
• GIMPS Forum (www.mersenneforum.org)

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