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

Active Jobs

Our volunteer network of distributed processing resources found the 28^th Mersenne prime on 13 April, 2009, and is still operating. These are the jobs currently running on processing resources that have the applet (see Appendix B) loaded: