Wieferich at Home

Wieferich@Home is the Internet-based distributed computing (DC) project searching for Wieferich primes. It is the first Czech DC project. The only known Wieferich primes are 1093 and 3511, found in 1913 and in 1922, respectively. It is not known, if there exist infinitely or finitely many Wieferich primes, or if only the two known primes exist. The project is included in number of lists of distributed computing projects. Everybody can participate in this problem by running a free application on own computer; the solution can be important in number theory, maybe also in cryptography.

Sources

  • Wieferich@Home - the web page of the project
  • Sequence in the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences - OEIS reference to the project
  • Free DC - Distributed Computing Stats System
  • Distributed Computing - active DC projects (mathematics)