MersenneForum

MersenneForum is an on-line forum set up to support GIMPS, the broader community of Mersenne numbers, prime number, and factoring projects. In addition to being the de facto help and support location for Prime95 and GIMPS/PrimeNet, there are several other major facets to the site, these are noted below.

Mirroring/hosting

The MersenneForum.org provides an alternate source for downloading GIMPS software. Other items mirrored or downloads available at MersenneForum are: [--under construction]

Prime number software discussion and development

Various prime related software packages that are found supported at MersenneForum inculde:

• GPU based prime software
  • Maclucas.cuda
  • LLR CUDA
  • mfaktc/mfakto
  • gpuOwL
• Factor5
• Dario Alpern's ECM applet (link)

DC Projects home

Projects that are (or have been) co-ordinated on the forum, these include:

• Lone Mersenne Hunters
  • 100 Million Digit Prefactor Project
  • Operation Billion Digits
• 321 Search
• Conjectures 'R Us
• Five or Bust
• Home Prime Search
• No Prime Left Behind
• Prime Sierpiński Project
• Riesel Prime Search
• Sierpiński-Riesel Base 5
• Twin Prime Search
• Various factoring projects

Help and Education

With many experts as frequent visitors, the forum has several subfora that are dedicated to answering questions and education.

"Off-topic" discussions

There are several locations where off-topic discussions are tolerated or encouraged.

Nicknames

Among others, MersenneForum is used by:

Person	Nick
Aaron Blosser	Madpoo
David Cleaver	WraithX
Andreas Höglund	ATH
Ernst Mayer	ewmayer
Preda Mihai	preda
Luigi Morelli	ET_
David Stanfill	airsquirrels
George Woltman	Prime95
Shoichiro Yamada	msft