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Prime95 24.14 (Windows)

Prime numbers have long fascinated amateur and professional mathematicians. An integer greater than one is called a prime number if its only divisors are one and itself. The first prime numbers are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, etc. For example, the number 10 is not prime because it is divisible...

Tags: Prime, GIMPS, Mersenne, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2005-08-09

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2^43,112,609 -1: Distributed computing finds largest prime yet

GIMPS â€" the distributed computing Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search â€" has found and confirmed the largest prime number ever: 243,112,609-1. It has 13 million digits and gives the GIMPS project a $100,000 award from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Science News reports. Because 243,112,609-1 has...

Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Prime, Distributed Computing, Mersenne, Cloud Computing, Network Technology, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-28

Microsoft WPA2: How to look a gift horse in the mouth

Microsoft WPA2: How to look a gift horse in the mouthI noticed WPA2 sortof crept out thereWondering where it really came from. Both my Mac and Windows systems appear to support it. I don't have a Linux box with a wireless solution, so I can't verify it...

Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Andrew Garcia, eWeek, Andrew, Microsoft WPA2, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-06-13

Windows for supercomputers likely out by fall

Windows for supercomputers likely out by fallLate againLast week we learned that Windows hopes to have a 64-bit OS running soon. Today we learn Windows hopes to introduce a beta Windows supercomputing cluster this summer. Yawn.Good thing MS gets a 60 percent profit margin on its desktop and...

Tags: Microsoft Excel, Operating systems, Even Microsoft, computer, grid computing, supercomputer, Wintel, cluster, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2005-03-03

Intel to put 64 bits in desktops in 2005

Intel to put 64 bits in desktops in 2005Not surprising ...I know people that are already looking for 64 bit systems for their Linux desktops. And now Windows is scaling up as well with multiple versions for multiple commodity processer architectures. I suspect that 128 bit commodity architecture...

Tags: Network technology, Processors, 64-bit, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., memory, hard drive, desktop

Discussion threads 2004-12-07

Computation Tools 4.5 (Mac)

Collection of tools for Numerical Scientific Computation. For example: GCC, Fortran (g77 and g95), Adaptor High Performance Fortran HPF, Message Passing Interface MPI, Shared Memory Multiprocessing OpenMP, Octave (with MPI, AltiVec), Cactus Scientific Computing Toolkit, Globus Grid Computing, RNPL Rapid Numerical Prototyping Language, GIMPS Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, GRAVSIM,...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Gaurav Khanna, Apple Mac OS X, Programming Languages, Internet, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, UNIX, Network Technology, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Software Development, Software/Web Development, It service Management, Networking

Software downloads 2004-07-18