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This wiki is for the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS), a distributed computing project dedicated to finding Mersenne primes and related prime finding projects.
The largest known prime to date is ERROR in calling template "Greatest Mersenne Prime" discovered by Patrick Laroche on 2018-12-07. See Mersenne News.
Categories
Categories can be found here.
Special Events
Mathematics
Software
- GIMPS clients - includes the official GIMPS clients Prime95/MPrime
- Primality testing programs
- Factoring programs
- GPU clients
- Various other software
Hardware
Projects
| GIMPS | ||
| GIMPS Related Projects | ||
| Lone Mersenne Hunters | 100 Million Digit Prefactor Project | Operation Billion Digits |
| Other Prime Searching Projects | ||
| 12121 Search | 27121 Search | PSearch |
| Riesel Sieve | Sierpinski/Riesel Base 5 | Twin Prime Search |
| Riesel Prime Search | Prime Sierpinski Project | No Prime Left Behind |
| Other Factoring Projects | ||
| Mersenneplustwo Factorizations | NFSNET | Home Primes Search |
| Aliquot Sequences Search (see forum) | ElevenSmooth | Cunningham Tables |
| Factoring Database | ||
| Defunct Projects | ||
| MasterPrime 2006 | 15k Search | |
Contributors
Feel free to post your name here and eventually what you've done.
- OmbooHankvald - Making guides, writing wiki, simplifying advanced stuff.
- Numbers - Real easy stuff
- Prime Monster - Easy stuff
- T.Rex - Papin's test - Generalised Fermat Numbers - LLT Digraph
- S80780 - GIMPS client files + a little proofreading
- Phil Moore - proof of Lucas-Lehmer test
- Fetofs - Proofreading, linking and easy stuff
- Richard B. Woods ("cheesehead") - Explana-, clarifica-, correc-, and sugges-tions.
- Jin Du
- Ixfd64 - general copyediting
- Sutton Shin - random maintance work.
To all users!
Please remember to create an account and log in to edit pages. You can play around in the Sandbox. Remember that your changes will not be saved until you request and receive an account here.
Unfortunately, account creation by new users is now disabled due to excessive vandalism. However, anyone desiring editing status can request an account on the GIMPS forum.
