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Many people only know prime95 to be a stress test for PCs. However, there is more to it than just that.

Prime 95 is actually a distributed computing project made to find "Mersenne Prime" Numbers.

A Mersenne prime is a Mersenne number that is prime. It is knownthat if 2p − 1 is prime then p is prime' date=' so it makes no difference which Mersenne number definition is used. As of December 2012, 47 Mersenne primes are known. The largest known prime number ((2^43,112,609)− 1) is a Mersenne prime.Since 1997, all newly-found Mersenne primes have been discovered by the “Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search†(GIMPS), a distributed computing project on the Internet.

These prime numbers are huge btw. M - 43112609 has 13 million digits.

Now Prime95 was released for GIMPS.

Interestingly GIMPS is also the first ever distributed computing project.

To find out more you will have to research more yourself as you will find information much faster by browsing than what I can give you.

I thought it was an interesting fact not many people knew about.

And now you know why its called "Prime95" !

EDIT: Forgot to mention thats why the icon for Prime95 is that. It actually reads [(2^p) -1]

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hmmmmm i knew that its is a distributed program. and i tried to run a cluster of PC running GIMPS and P95, but could not get it to work. do u have any idea how to do it?

Nope sorry.

To be honest you'd be better off running SETI or folding your or own personal choice of distributed computing.

Looking for prime numbers if useless imo.

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hmmmmm i knew that its is a distributed program. and i tried to run a cluster of PC running GIMPS and P95, but could not get it to work. do u have any idea how to do it?

hmmmm ... i dont care about the outcome of what i am doing. i just want to learn how to do distributed computing. anyway thanks very much for letting me know about the other options.... and what OS is this on? windows or Linux?

EDIT: i sounded rude. sorry abt that. my english is not the best

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hmmmmm i knew that its is a distributed program. and i tried to run a cluster of PC running GIMPS and P95, but could not get it to work. do u have any idea how to do it?

If you want to do distributed computing the folding is the way to go. It has very easy to use software for windows.

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hmmmmm i knew that its is a distributed program. and i tried to run a cluster of PC running GIMPS and P95, but could not get it to work. do u have any idea how to do it?

thanks.... and one more question... do u think i can distribute a media converting program or some thing like that?
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hmmmmm i knew that its is a distributed program. and i tried to run a cluster of PC running GIMPS and P95, but could not get it to work. do u have any idea how to do it?

No idea what you mean sorry.

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hmmmmm i knew that its is a distributed program. and i tried to run a cluster of PC running GIMPS and P95, but could not get it to work. do u have any idea how to do it?

oh... then its ok..... thanks for the help.. .ill try out folding
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Yep, read about this before - pretty neat stuff...

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Pretty cool tbh ^.^ I don't see console users doing all this neat stuff, like prime and folding =P
For console users, from 2007/8 till Nov. 2012, the PS3 had the ability to fold until F@H and/or Sony decided to pull the plug.

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/10/21/ps3-system-software-update-v4-30/

http://folding.typepad.com/news/2012/10/life-with-playstation-ending.html

Although if you were a power folder during this time, you were probably using a computer anyways as the PS3 could only make about 900 to 1,000 ppd.

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Pretty cool tbh ^.^ I don't see console users doing all this neat stuff, like prime and folding =P
Well, you comment is still valid as no console as of now can fold or run any other Distrusted computer task. ;)

Although now that I think of it, When sony had the "Other OS" feature with the PS3, I think there was a few boinc projects that could run on those linux's OS. Sadly though, I was just getting into the F@H area when that feature was removed. So I really didn't spend much time looking into it. :(

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