A new prime number has been discovered that is more than ... In 2017, Mihai Preda created a Mersenne prime test program called 'GpuOwl' that can be run on a GPU, in response to the increasing ...

The largest known prime number has been discovered by an amateur ... Luke Durant used a free program called the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, or GIMPS, to sift through the possibilities ...

The current form of the program that helps people search was developed by Richard Crandall in the early 1990s. It essentially searches for a prime number and then verifies that the discovered ...