Prime95
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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.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- software
- Developer
- George Woltman
- Official website
- mersenne.org
- Image
- Prime95 28.7 quad-core.png
- Has use
- mathematics
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- language of work or name
- English language
- programmed in
- x86 assembly language
- software version identifier
- 30.19 Build 20
- copyright license
- freeware
- Commons category
- Prime95
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Finding Mersenne primes by volunteer computing
- gwnum
- Use for stress testing
- See also
- References
- External links
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.
Although most of its source code is available, Prime95 is not free and open-source software because its end-user license agreement states that if the software is used to find a prime qualifying for a bounty offered by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, then that bounty will be claimed and distributed by GIMPS.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Prime95” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.