WEP-M+2 Project: Difference between revisions

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WEP-M+2 Project is a volunteer distributed computing project that used BOINC to investigate Mersenneplustwo integer factorization.

Mersenneplustwo because they’re the most interesting mathematically, especially when it comes to integer factorization.

Mersenneplustwo numbers are those integers that are two more than a Mersenne prime. Mersenne primes are of the form 2^p-1 http://www.mersenne.org/. This makes Mersenneplustwo numbers of the form 2^p+1.
WEP-M+2 Project aims to find the factors (ie integer divisors) of Mersenneplustwo numbers.

BOINC is sooooo cool. I originally setup a server on spec because I felt I wanted the extra cycles, and when I saw the first wu’s come in over the network even from just my own little local farm, let alone later all the external volunteers, I was hooked for the next 17 years - James Wanless
The underlying algorithm is released open source at: https://github.com/bearnol/we

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-* BOINC is sooooo cool. I originally setup a server on spec because I felt I wanted the extra cycles, and when I saw the first wu’s come in over the network even from just my own little local farm, let alone later all the external volunteers, I was hooked for the next 17 years… :)))
+* BOINC is sooooo cool. I originally setup a server on spec because I felt I wanted the extra cycles, and when I saw the first wu’s come in over the network even from just my own little local farm, let alone later all the external volunteers, I was hooked for the next 17 years - James Wanless
 * The underlying algorithm is released open source at: https://github.com/bearnol/we