30.19 build 13[1]
/ March 7, 2024; 56 days ago (2024-03-07)
Preview release
30.19 build 14[2]
/ March 30, 2024; 33 days ago (2024-03-30)
Written in
ASM, C
Operating system
Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD
Type
Mersenne prime finder / system stability tester
License
Freeware[3]
Website
mersenne.org
Prime95, also distributed as the command-line utility mprime for FreeBSD and Linux, is a freeware application written by George Woltman. It is the official client of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS), a volunteer computing project dedicated to searching for Mersenne primes. It is also used in overclocking to test for system stability.[4]
Although most[5] of its source code is available, Prime95 is not free and open-source software because its end-user license agreement[3] states that if the software is used to find a prime qualifying for a bounty offered by the Electronic Frontier Foundation,[6] then that bounty will be claimed and distributed by GIMPS.
^"GIMPS - Free Prime95 software downloads - PrimeNet". www.mersenne.org. Archived from the original on 2023-02-03. Retrieved 2023-02-04.
^Woltman, George (2023-10-04). "mersenneforum.org - View Single Post - ECM users - version 30.9-30.18 (see post #465 & #398)". mersenneforum.org. Archived from the original on 2023-10-27. Retrieved 2023-10-27.
^ ab"GIMPS Legalese - PrimeNet". Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search. Retrieved 2019-05-08.
^"How To Run a CPU Stress Test Using Prime95". Appuals.com. 2015-12-10. Retrieved 2019-05-23.
^Woltman, George. "The security code or checksum is hard to forge. This is the only source code that is not published".
Prime95, also distributed as the command-line utility mprime for FreeBSD and Linux, is a freeware application written by George Woltman. It is the official...
computing project researching Mersenne prime numbers using his software Prime95. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with...
is more heavily stressed with Prime95 ... IBT really does pull more power [make greater thermal demands]. But ... Prime95 failed first every time, and...
numbers. GIMPS was founded in 1996 by George Woltman, who also wrote the Prime95 client and its Linux port MPrime. Scott Kurowski wrote the back end PrimeNet...
The IBDWT is used in the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search's client Prime95 to perform FFT multiplication, as well as in other programs implementing...
optimizations are also present in various clones and forks, like LibreSSL. Prime95/MPrime, the software used for GIMPS, started using the AVX instructions...
math-intensive applications for testing general CPUs). Popular stress tests include Prime95, Everest, Superpi, OCCT, AIDA64, Linpack (via the LinX and IntelBurnTest...
useful depending on how Intel and AMD implement them" Woltmann, George (Prime95). "Intel AVX and GIMPS". mersenneforum.org/index.php. Great Internet Mersenne...
constant Mersenne conjectures Mersenne twister Double Mersenne number Prime95 / MPrime Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) Largest known prime...
machines. Other multithreaded programs include: Hyper PI, IntelBurnTest, Prime95, Montecarlo superPI, OCCT or y-cruncher. Last but not least, while SuperPi...
Newsletter #9". Archived from the original on 2012-02-06. Retrieved 2012-02-03. Prime95 (2006-01-04). "Party on! GIMPS turns 10!!!". mersenneforum.org. Retrieved...
the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) and is the author of Prime95 (which is used to search for Mersenne Prime numbers and for hardware stress...
them contains primes. The second generation of the client was based on Prime95, which is used in the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search. In January...
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