look out 17 team here comes a boost!

[Khyron320]

wheeeeee im temporarly turning my fleet of 4 over too the 17 project. It is very interesting though i dont undestand it =P. Team Anand is 3 from the top we can get #1 with a few more users.

The reason for my post is a question on what this 17 project is accomplishing? the FAQ is down on the web site for this DC project.. Does any1 know will finding this number help the world in some strange way?

 

[mechBgon]

I'm getting through to the site's FAQ here but if you can't get through to that copy, try here too. After researching what this project was all about for a while, I thought my brain was going to overheat but even though the goal is somewhat abstract, proving this number is the one they're after lays groundwork for more complicated problems. Imagine if they got together enough CPU power to actually time the traffic lights properly in big cities, for example!

Anyway, great to have your enthusiasm on board and let's layeth the smack down on those competing teams! Oh, and don't forget to review the Distributed Gibs project on the second site too. We may want to do some of that one too.

 

[Confused]

Welcome to the TeAm


The basics of the project is this: To try and prove that 78557 is, or isn't, the smallest Siepiniski Prime. As of the start of the project, there were 17 values for which this had not been solved, hence the name Seventeen Or Bust

We have so far found 5 new Prime numbers, with our very own sean2002 (SeanD on SoB) finding the 4th prime


The basis of this project is in a way to show that with a distributed computing model, a problem can be solved. There is also the opportunity when all 17 numbers are completed, that this project could quite easily go on and find bigger Primes.



Confused