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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

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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Factorizer 10.34 (Windows)

Factorizer is a Windows program to find factors of numbers up to 2,147,483,646 and to find primes, pairs of primes and Palmen colors of numbers. Or in more detail, Factorizer may be used: (1) to get the prime decomposition of all numbers in a range of numbers, (2) to get...

Tags: Factor, Hermetic Systems, Factorizer, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-09

GenRan 1.0.3 (Mac)

Generate and collect any quantity of random raw binary data using one four selectable sources for the random numbers: CLib random lib poor, /dev/urandom device good, cryptographically secure Mersenne Twister - CSPRNG excellent, and Swiss manufactured USB random number generator perfect. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Random Number Generator, Apple Macintosh, Random Number, CHS Systems

Software downloads 2008-03-27

Hitori Rules 1.02 (Mobile)

! V1.02 Windows Mobile 2003 / SE / VGA Windows Mobile 5 / VGA Hitori gets the 'Rules' treatment! Following our incredible success with Sudoku Rules Extreme!, join us as we delve into the rules and advanced techniques to be found in this challenging game. The Game Menu Practice Mode...

Tags: Mobile, Board, Spiral Mile, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law

Software downloads 2006-11-21

ZRandom 1.2 (Windows)

ZRandom implements a pseudo-random number generator for Microsoft Excel: use Mersenne Twister algorithm to generate better pseudo-random numbers than the Excel RAND and VBA Rnd functions. Generate random numbers from 16 discrete and continuous distributions. Functions for use in spreadsheet formulas. A VBA interface to generate random numbers in your...

Tags: Random Number, Microsoft VBA, Microsoft Windows, ZRandom, Productivity, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2004-12-15

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