Entropia's
Internet PrimeNet Server
Parallel Technology for the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search
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Entropia's
Internet PrimeNet Server
Parallel Technology for the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search
Serious research. Totally for fun.
Join a search of mathematical discovery and become a part of Internet history.
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GIMPS Internet PrimeNet Server (IPS)
GIMPS is a public-participation, distributed Internet research computing community created in 1996, operating in over 100 countries world-wide.
PrimeNet is the grid computing system that runs GIMPS, and is the first Entropia grid computing application, having GIMPS network operations, the www.mersenne.org web site, end-user technical support and CPU time accounting provided by Entropia. For further information on Entropia and its various commercial grid distributed computing system solutions, please email info@entropia.com or visit our home page.
Projects of this magnitude require the efforts of many people, and PrimeNet for GIMPS is no exception. PrimeNet's contributors include:
- The 250,000+ members of the GIMPS & Entropia research computing community - demonstrable proof of power in numbers.
- Scott Kurowski, Founder, Entropia, Inc., creator of the GIMPS PrimeNet research virtual machine grid system.
- George Woltman, Founder, Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search at www.Mersenne.org. George worked out his requirements, Windows client design and software with Scott for Prime95 15.x and the initial full Internet PrimeNet 3.1 Server. He schedules IPS exponent assignments, provides the semi-periodic merge database, and processes the collected test results.
- Nick Hilliard ported the HTTP w/proxy version of MPrime v18.1 to FreeBSD 3.x.
- Peter Hunter ported the HTTP w/proxy version of PrimeNet's client code to Linux, as MPrime 15.x.
- Michiel van Loon ported MPrime 15.1 and the HTTP w/proxy PrimeNet's client code to OS/2, as PRIMEOS2 3.0.
- Ken Kriesel and Robert Friberg tested PrimeNet 2.0, and provided great design feedback.
- Klaus Mueller & Christian Mallwitz - INTERSHOP Communications, Paul Giovacchini, Mark Tetrode, Earl Malmrose, Phillip Remaker, Geoffrey Faivre-Malloy, Brandon Galbraith, Jason Horne, Eric Prestemon, Joe Decker tested the PrimeNet 2.6 Internet prototype for Prime95 14.4
- Duncan Booth wrote a RPC server program on which the April 1997 prototype PrimeNet Server 1.0 was based.
- STL137@aol.com provides his GIMPS banners from the GIMPS Banner Gallery, and regularly updates them.
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