Why Prime Numbers are more important then AIDS ??? - Page 2

QuintLeo · 2003-02-06, 00:39

distributed.net predates SETI by a few years as a distributed project. It also predates Primenet by quite a bit, though I'm not sure if they predate GIMPS as a whole.

I believe you are correct about SETI being the biggest project, though - I can't think of any other project offhand that has exceeded a million participants, even distributed.net (which I'm fairly sure was the second-biggest, as of the end of their RC5-64 project - they've shrunk some since then, RC5-72 isn't proving nearly as popular). I *do* wonder if that "4 million" figure represents active participants or is a "total that have ever participated" number....

asdf · 2003-02-06, 02:28

I believe that there is a little misconception about the amount of computers dedicated to this project. It cannot be counted by computers because some users may have 100 computers, and others have 1.

NickGlover · 2003-02-06, 05:02

Quote:

Originally Posted by QuintLeo

distributed.net predates SETI by a few years as a distributed project. It also predates Primenet by quite a bit, though I'm not sure if they predate GIMPS as a whole.

http://www.distributed.net/history.html indicates that distributed.net started in March 1997. GIMPS started in January 1996.

Quote:

Originally Posted by QuintLeo

I *do* wonder if that "4 million" figure represents active participants or is a "total that have ever participated" number....

I looked closer at the Seti@Home website, and I found the number of active users. It was in a graph, so my estimate based on the graph is 530,000.

2003-02-06, 10:10

Eventually all fields of science benefit from mathematics.

For instance the random mutation of the HIV virus(or any DNA), can be analyzed with the prime number theorum, in future research.
So evolution itself(mutation) owes credit to prime numbers.

Sorry you are wrong!
:(

philmoore · 2003-02-06, 18:17

I found the 200,000 computer figure on entropia's web-site:
http://entropia.com/mission.asp
The 33,000 computers currently participating in GIMPS through primenet are summarized at
http://www.mersenne.org/primenet/status.shtml
Note that this figure is total number of computers, not total number of (human) participants.
Also, note that the GIMPS page at
http://www.mersenne.org/projects.htm
lists a large number of other distributed projects, many of them medically related.

2003-02-06, 10:10	#15
TTn 5·7 Posts	random curiousity Eventually all fields of science benefit from mathematics. For instance the random mutation of the HIV virus(or any DNA), can be analyzed with the prime number theorum, in future research. So evolution itself(mutation) owes credit to prime numbers. Sorry you are wrong! :(

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2003-02-06, 00:39	#12
QuintLeo Oct 2002 Lost in the hills of Iowa 2⁶·7 Posts	distributed.net predates SETI by a few years as a distributed project. It also predates Primenet by quite a bit, though I'm not sure if they predate GIMPS as a whole. I believe you are correct about SETI being the biggest project, though - I can't think of any other project offhand that has exceeded a million participants, even distributed.net (which I'm fairly sure was the second-biggest, as of the end of their RC5-64 project - they've shrunk some since then, RC5-72 isn't proving nearly as popular). I do wonder if that "4 million" figure represents active participants or is a "total that have ever participated" number....

2003-02-06, 02:28	#13
asdf Sep 2002 2²×3×5 Posts	I believe that there is a little misconception about the amount of computers dedicated to this project. It cannot be counted by computers because some users may have 100 computers, and others have 1.

2003-02-06, 18:17	#16
philmoore "Phil" Sep 2002 Tracktown, U.S.A. 3·373 Posts	I found the 200,000 computer figure on entropia's web-site: http://entropia.com/mission.asp The 33,000 computers currently participating in GIMPS through primenet are summarized at http://www.mersenne.org/primenet/status.shtml Note that this figure is total number of computers, not total number of (human) participants. Also, note that the GIMPS page at http://www.mersenne.org/projects.htm lists a large number of other distributed projects, many of them medically related.