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Is there any actual value to finding Mersenne primes? Genuinely curious.

• eli 15y ago
  Hah, got me there! Honestly, I'm not so sure. But at least it's conceivably useful to someone's research. Protein folding is a probably better example. Or, I don't know, modeling long-term weather patterns? Here's a list to start with: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_projects http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_p...
  • hugh3 15y ago
    Ab initio molecular dynamics modelling. If anyone's got a few thousand spare CPUs send 'em my way!