i am doing a reasearch project on GIMPS
 

I was just wondering if there are any good sources for more of the technical information behind how this works?

This is for my distributed systems class.

This is a good basic description of the math involved:
[URL]http://www.mersenne.org/various/math.php[/URL]

If you were looking more for the info on how it works as a distributed computing project...I don't know about such a page. "[URL="http://www.mersenne.org/various/works.php"]This page[/URL] describes what you will need to participate in GIMPS and how it works on your computer."