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TIL I work at the same company as the discoverer of the 50th known Mersenne Prime.

I know at least one sysadmin who used GIMPS as a burn-in program for new servers.....

It’s common for stress-testing overclocking, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime95#Use_for_stress_testing

I use Prime95 to test for usage-related recording lags for sound and video recording in our lab equipment. If we're not getting signal de-synchronization with that slamming the CPU(s), we can worry a bit less.

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