Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS)

The [Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS)](https://www.mersenne.org) is a collaborative project of volunteers

using the Prime95 client to participate in a distributed computing effort to find [Mersenne Prime numbers](http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/mersenne.shtml).

The Prime95 client can also be used as a stress testing tool. The Prime95 client includes a "torture test" that places

a heavy computational load on a system. Continuous computations are run and checked against tolerances while they are

executing with the final results being compared to the known correct answers.


## Package Parameters

The following package parameter can be set:

* `/AddToDesktop` - this puts a shortcut on your desktop to Prime95.

This parameter can be passed to the installer with the use of `--params`.

For example: `--params '"/AddToDesktop"'`.

To have choco remember parameters on upgrade, be sure to set `choco feature enable -n=useRememberedArgumentsForUpgrades`.

## Notes

* If support for 32-bit Windows XP is required use the legacy version [Prime95 29.8.6](https://chocolatey.org/packages/prime95/29.8.6).

```powershell

choco install prime95 --version 29.8.6

choco pin pin add -n=prime95 --version 29.8.6

```

* This package is automatically updated using the [Chocolatey Automatic Package Update Model (AU)](https://github.com/majkinetor/au/blob/master/README.md).

If you find it is out of date by more than a day or two, please contact the maintainer(s) and let them know the package is no longer updating correctly.