The vast majority of computers still aren't doing any form of distributed
computing. Here are a few suggestions to help increase GIMPS participation:
1. Get people at major universities + colleges to become "active
recruiters," posting messages on announcement boards, talking to friends and
faculty. We should all be doing this sort of stuff anyways, but if we could
get people to volunteer/coordinate efforts, we might get a lot out of it.
2. Give people/teams some form of credit for recruiting people. This could
be done as competition separate from the main one, or somehow connected. We
could probably have people list an option of listing a "sponsor" or
"sponsors" already on GIMPS when they join. Competition almost always makes
things work better.
3. Post periodic announcements to sci.math and other discussion groups. In
particular, if someone asks a question about Mersenne primes someone should
answer it and throw GIMPS in as well. I'm alrwady doing this, but I can't
get every group. If we organize to split them up, assigning different groups
to different people, it might help out a lot.
Sincerely,
Joshua Zelinsky
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