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Jul 2003
So Cal
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"Nathan"
Jul 2008
Maryland, USA
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Maybe GIMPS has decided to join BOINC? George?
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#3 |
P90 years forever!
Aug 2002
Yeehaw, FL
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"Nathan"
Jul 2008
Maryland, USA
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Wow, I wonder if they are aware of GIMPS. This reminds me of the fellow who is re-running every LL test on his home server.
Will be interesting to see how their code stacks up against Prime95. |
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1976 Toyota Corona years forever!
"Wayne"
Nov 2006
Saskatchewan, Canada
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It would be a real shame (IMHO) if they started from scratch and re-did all the work GIMPS has been doing the last 15 or so years.
Other than a smidgen of benefit from re-double checking GIMPS results. Last fiddled with by petrw1 on 2010-12-18 at 04:22 Reason: last line |
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"Richard B. Woods"
Aug 2002
Wisconsin USA
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Undefined
"The unspeakable one"
Jun 2006
My evil lair
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A Sunny Moo
Aug 2007
USA (GMT-5)
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Perhaps this project intends to serve as a "wrapper" platform for GIMPS? Sort of like how yoyo@home and dnetc@home serve as BOINC wrappers for various distributed.net projects; they use a modified version of the distributed.net client to crunch work reserved and reported en masse under a collective username at the mother project. This Mersenne BOINC project may be planning to do a similar thing with Prime95.
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"Nathan"
Jul 2008
Maryland, USA
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"Nathan"
Jul 2008
Maryland, USA
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Bemusing Prompter
"Danny"
Dec 2002
California
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There is also a legal issue: if someone uses "Mersenne@Home" to find a prize-winning prime, would it still be considered a GIMPS discovery? If the discoverer used PrimeNet to get assignments and report results, and the wrapper was written completely independent of Prime95, a dispute could result. |
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