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To: Moonray who wrote (17316)	9/16/1998 4:12:00 PM
From: Lost in New York	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

Man Seeks New Prime Number With 2,500 US West PCs NewsBytes - September 16, 1998: 2:35 p.m. ET You too can search for primes: ------------------------------------------------------------------ Internet PrimeNet Server Parallel Technology for the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search entropia.com ... As of 8 July 1998, PrimeNet's sustained throughput* is more than 200 billion floating point operations per second, or 6.4 (Pentium Pro 200Mhz) CPU years computing time per day. For the testing of Mersenne numbers, this is equivalent to seven Cray T916 supercomputers, fully equipped (16 CPUs ea.), and at peak power. This amazing and fun computing effort is being applied by people from around the entire planet, producing research results that promote theoretical studies in mathematical number theory, cryptography and parallel computing. It also fosters a growing international spirit of Internet cooperation for research. ------------------------------------------------------------------ The current largest known prime is 2^3021377 - 1, can you find the next? Basically, you get a program and a list of numbers to check. There are prizes: entropia.com Dave FYI a Mersenne prime is of the form 2^n - 1