Mersenne Prime Search

July 7, 2000 9:53 AM

Mersenne Prime Search is a distributed computing project much like Seti@home, except instead of searching for aliens, you're in the running for $100,000 and a place in math history (shouldn't your computer actually be the one that goes into the math history books?).
posted by mathowie (1 comment total)

This is terribly exciting to me, but how can I choose between having my computer search for aliens, and search for numbers. I have a bunch of old mac's and pc's lying around, it might be time to press them back into service.
posted by thirteen at 11:51 AM on July 7, 2000