WEP-M+2 Project

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

Why WEP-M+2 Project?

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

Goal

• 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.

Methods

• 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

Project Administrator

James Wanless

Scientific results

https://sites.google.com/site/bearnol/math/mersenneplustwo These results are referenced on Wikipedia here: Mersenne conjectures cite ref-3