MPrime
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| MPrime | |
| Developer: | George Woltman |
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| Latest release: | 24.14 / August 9, 2005 |
| OS: | Cross-platform |
| Use: | Mersenne prime finder / System stability tester / Integer factorization |
| Website: | http://www.mersenne.org/ |
MPrime is the name of the Linux and BSD software, written by George Woltman, 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 principally designed to test primality of Mersenne numbers, but can also apply several integer factorization algorithms (Elliptic curve method, P minus 1,...) to any number of the form k bn+c (as of v.24.6).
Although not specifically designed for, it is very efficient and now quite popular and widely used to test system stability via a "torture test" of processor and system memory.
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