Prime95
Prime95, also distributed as the command-line utility mprime for FreeBSD and Linux, 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.
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| Developer(s) | George Woltman |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 3 January 1996 |
| Stable release | 30.8 build 17
/ September 28, 2022 |
| Preview release | 30.18 build 2
/ October 4, 2023 |
| Written in | ASM, C |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD |
| Type | Mersenne prime finder / system stability tester |
| License | Freeware |
| Website | mersenne |
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.
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