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make GIMPS (Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search) available for Gridcoin rewarding #169

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skcin opened this issue Sep 22, 2017 · 1 comment

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skcin commented Sep 22, 2017

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz
Thursday Sep 21, 2017 at 10:22 GMT
Originally opened as Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks#163

QuintLeo suggested here:

"Perhaps Gridcoin should add support for the GIMPS (Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search) project - the holder of something like 8 of the CURRENT "largest primes known"."

From what I see quickly, they:

are active since 1996
Mersenne Research, Inc., a non-profit corporation charitably
- see legal
have stats:
- overall user stats (top500)
- team stats

It has to be investigated more...

e.g. update frequency, server load, ...
e.g. also if a new BOINC project could be made with a wrapper?
...

Definitely a good thing when "something else" besides BOINC is added to Gridcoin

see weaknesses

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grctest commented Sep 24, 2017

Not a BOINC based project, it's up to the project owners to set up a BOINC project to tap into more computing power.

grctest closed this as completed

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