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Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search
Volunteer project using software to search for Mersenne prime numbers
largest known prime number
largest prime number that is currently known
George Woltman
Founder of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime search
Prime95
Prime95, also distributed as the command-line utility mprime for FreeBSD, Linux, and MacOS is a freeware application written by George Woltman. It is the official client of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS), a volunteer computing project dedicated to searching for Mersenne primes. It is also used in overclocking to test for system stability.