Paul Gage

Paul Gage is a research computer scientist who works at Cray Supercomputers. He is most well known for collaborating with David Slowinski on an algorithm that is credited with the discovery of several of the largest Mersenne primes: 2756839−1 in 1992, 2859433−1 in 1994, and 21257787−1 in 1996.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Large Prime Number Found by SGI/Cray Supercomputer
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 3/20/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.