Mersenne@home is a new project, based in Poland, that searches for 'Mersenne primes' - prime numbers of the form 2^p-1.

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These guys must be doing something right, they are already over 3 TeraFLOPS on around 1000 hosts. And, no GPU.

I just added four hosts.

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I really do not understand the existence of this project.

The search of Mersenne Prime is already done by the GIMP project since 1999 here GIMP. But it's not a BOINC project.

The project has already found the 47th Mersenne prime number (2p-1 with p > 43 million) and it's currently running p > 54 million.

When you ask Mersenne@home about GIMP, he doesn't know about the project !!!

Mersenne@home is not a wrapper for GIMP.

What the goal of the project? Re-find the first 47th mersenne prime?
On which range the project is currently running?
No answers yet.

These guys must be doing something right, they are already over 3 TeraFLOPS on around 1000 hosts. And, no GPU.

I just added four hosts.

FYI: GIMP stat for the last 24 hours: 8487 computers active for 74.993 Tera flops.