There is an article at http://www.newscientist.com/keysites/netropolitan/981128.html that discusses GIMPS as "perhaps the most famous--and most notorious--distributed computing project" and then refers to Aaron as an example (the only one they give, BTW) of why it is so notorious. The article is quite outdated - for example, it refers to D.net as having several projects going. Interestingly, it does not state any figure for the number of primes found by GIMPS, or state any prizes for any of the projects. Despite being a 1998 article, it is still listed in Yahoo!. Regards, Nathan, noting that every project's clients have undoubtedly managed to find their way where they are not wanted, and that this no more makes the project 'notorious' than any large company is 'notorious' because some of their employees may be over-charging the health plan. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com _________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
