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Prime95

Prime95, also distributed as the command-line utility mprime for FreeBSD, Linux, and MacOS 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.

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Finding Mersenne primes by volunteer computing

Fermat primality testLucas–Lehmer primality testCompositenessFactorPollard's p − 1 algorithm
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FreeBSDLinuxMacOSFreewareApplication
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Gwnum

MicroarchitecturesIrrational base discrete weighted transformPrimeGrid
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Use for stress testing

Assembly
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Developer
George Woltman
License
Freeware
Operating system
Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD
Preview release
31.07 build 1 / August 2, 2026; 22 days ago (2026-08-02)
Release
3 January 1996; 30 years ago (1996-01-03)
Stable release
30.19 build 20 / June 2, 2024; 2 years ago (2024-06-02)

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Finding Mersenne primes by volunteer computing

Gwnum

Use for stress testing

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Prime95

Nodes35
Edges34
Triples47
Avg. degree1.94
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Prime95

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related to Finding Mersenne primes by volunteer computing · 17
Prime95 → April, As, Current, Fermat, Finally, For, GIMPS, GPU, Lehmer, Lucas, Mersenne, Pollard's, PRP, Specifically, To, Trial, Williams's
related to Use for stress testing · 13
Prime95 → Additionally, As, CPU, CPU's, FFT, In, Prime95's, RAM, Self-Test, The, There, These, To
related to gwnum · 6
Prime95 → CPUs, ECM Stage, For, It, P-1, PrimeGrid's PRST
Developer · 1
Prime95 → George Woltman
License · 1
Prime95 → Freeware
Operating system · 1
Prime95 → Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD
Preview release · 1
Prime95 → 31.07 build 1 / August 2, 2026; 22 days ago (2026-08-02)
Release · 1
Prime95 → 3 January 1996; 30 years ago (1996-01-03)
Stable release · 1
Prime95 → 30.19 build 20 / June 2, 2024; 2 years ago (2024-06-02)
Type · 1
Prime95 → Mersenne prime finder / system stability tester

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used prime test also mersenne gimps testing using stress computing primes written primality number distributed gwnum volunteer system stability freebsd

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Prime95DeveloperGeorge Woltman1.00infobox
Prime95LicenseFreeware1.00infobox
Prime95Operating systemMicrosoft Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD1.00infobox
Prime95Preview release31.07 build 1 / August 2, 2026; 22 days ago (2026-08-02)1.00infobox
Prime95Release3 January 1996; 30 years ago (1996-01-03)1.00infobox
Prime95Stable release30.19 build 20 / June 2, 2024; 2 years ago (2024-06-02)1.00infobox
Prime95TypeMersenne prime finder / system stability tester1.00infobox
Prime95Websitemersenne.org1.00infobox
Prime95Written inASM, C1.00infobox
PrimeGrid's PRSTinstance ofIt also implements polynomial multiplication for use in P-1 and ECM Stage 2.gwnum is also used by other distributed computing projects0.80text
Prime95related to External linksOfficial0.60section
Prime95related to Finding Mersenne primes by volunteer computingFermat0.60section

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