Universally Accessible Distributed Computing on Public, Heterogeneous Networks,
Applied to the Search for Mersenne Primes

Overview

Introduction

Approach

Model

Implementation

Results

Conclusions

Going Further

References

Acknowledgements

Appendix A: Active Jobs

Appendix B: Processing Resource Applet

Appendix C: Control Server Source Code

Appendix D: Processing Resource Source Code

Appendix E: Database Source Code

Acknowledgements

We'd like to acknowledge the following people, who've helped our project immensely

• Nick Bennett, for serving as a project mentor, and going far above and beyond the call of duty.

• Natalie Martino, our teacher sponsor, who made this project possible.

• The Supercomputer Challenge & GUTS Program.

• Last, but not least, all the people who participated in the tests!