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Please note: This site has officially become a museum of volunteer computing as opposed to an active site.

When the site was started, there was a need for better volunteer computing information, but I am happy to say that there is enough information available now that this website's mission is no longer necessary. Please see sites listed on the links page for more current information.

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Use GIMPS to impress your neighbors by finding the world's largest known Mersenne Prime. A Mersenne Number is a number that is one less than a power of two (Mn=2n-1). A Merssene Prime is a Merssene Number that is a prime number. One of The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search's (GIMPS) recent finds, the 44th known Mersenne Prime, and the largest of its kind, was 232,582,657-1 found on September 4th, 2006.

Running since January 1996, this is one of the oldest Volunteer Computing projects still in existence today. A $100,000 reward will be given out to the person who finds a prime containing 10,000,000 digits.
 
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