![]() ![]() ![]() Volunteers have a chance to earn research discovery awards of $3,000 or $50,000 if their computer discovers a new Mersenne prime. Aaron Blosser is now the system administrator, upgrading and maintaining PrimeNet as needed. Scott Kurowski wrote the PrimeNet system software that coordinates GIMPS' computers. GIMPS Prime95 client software was developed by founder George Woltman. The discovery is eligible for a $3,000 GIMPS research discovery award. Perseverance has finally paid off for Jon-he has been hunting for big primes with GIMPS for over 14 years. Jonathan Pace is a 51-year old Electrical Engineer living in Germantown, Tennessee. Andreas Höglund also confirmed using Mlucas running on an Amazon AWS instance in 65 hours. Ernst Mayer also verified it using his own program Mlucas on 32-core Xeon server in 82 hours.Andreas Höglund verified the prime using CUDALucas running on NVidia Titan Black GPU in 73 hours.David Stanfill verified it using gpuOwL on an AMD RX Vega 64 GPU in 34 hours.Aaron Blosser verified it using Prime95 on an Intel Xeon server in 37 hours.To prove there were no errors in the prime discovery process, the new prime was independently verified using four different programs on four different hardware configurations. The primality proof took six days of non-stop computing on a PC with an Intel i5-6600 CPU. Chris Caldwell maintains an authoritative web site on the largest known primes, and has an excellent history of Mersenne primes. Volunteers download a free program to search for these primes, with a cash award offered to anyone lucky enough to find a new prime. GIMPS, founded in 1996, has discovered the last 16 Mersenne primes. Mersenne primes were named for the French monk Marin Mersenne, who studied these numbers more than 350 years ago. It is only the 50th known Mersenne prime ever discovered, each increasingly difficult to find. It is nearly one million digits larger than the previous record prime number, in a special class of extremely rare prime numbers known as Mersenne primes. The new prime number, also known as M77232917, is calculated by multiplying together 77,232,917 twos, and then subtracting one. Jonathan is one of thousands of volunteers using free GIMPS software. ![]()
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