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 ...

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 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 ...