make GIMPS (Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search) available for Gridcoin rewarding

[skcin]

Issue by Erkan-Yilmaz Thursday Sep 21, 2017 at 10:22 GMT Originally opened as https://github.com/Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks/issues/163

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QuintLeo suggested here:

• "Perhaps Gridcoin should add support for the GIMPS (Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search) project - the holder of something like 8 of the CURRENT "largest primes known"."

From what I see quickly, they:

• are active since 1996
• Mersenne Research, Inc., a non-profit corporation charitably
  • see legal
• have stats:
  • overall user stats (top500)
  • team stats

It has to be investigated more...

• e.g. update frequency, server load, ...
• e.g. also if a new BOINC project could be made with a wrapper?
• ...

Definitely a good thing when "something else" besides BOINC is added to Gridcoin

• see weaknesses

[grctest]

Not a BOINC based project, it's up to the project owners to set up a BOINC project to tap into more computing power.