Prime Grid
PrimeGrid is a distributed computing project for searching for prime numbers of world-record size. It makes use of the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) platform. As of September 2011, there are about 7,500 active participants (on about 16,000 host computers) from 114 countries with a total BOINC credit of more than 112.16 billion, reporting about 1.663 petaflops (1.663 quadrillion operations per second) of processing power.
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