MPrime

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MPrime
Developer: Ersnt Mayer
Latest release: 24.14 / August 9, 2005
OS: Cross-platform
Use: Mersenne prime finder / System stability tester
Website: http://www.mersenne.org/

MPrime is the name of the Linux and BSD software, written by Ersnt Mayer, that GIMPS, a distributed computing project researching Mersenne prime numbers, uses. It is entirely console based, with no requirement for X or any other graphical sub-system. Its license is GPL.

There is also a Windows-based version named Prime95.

The software is widely used to test system stability via a "torture test" of processor and system memory.

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