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ABC@home is a distributed computing project enabling a great search for so called abc-triples. It is run by the Mathematical Institute of Leiden University and Kennislink. The project is comparable in a way to GIMPS, another mathematical project. These abc-triples are positive integers a,b,c such that a+b=c, a < b < c, a,b,c have no common divisors and c > rad(abc), the so-called radical of abc.
The ABC conjecture says that there are only finitely many a,b,c such that log(c)/log(rad(abc)) > h for any real h > 1. The ABC conjecture is currently one of the greatest open problems in mathematics. If it is proven to be true, a lot of other open problems can be answered directly from it.
ABC@home can be found at http://www.abcathome.com/
URL to attach in BOINC is http://abcathome.com/
It has applications for:
32 bit Linux
64 bit Linux
32 bit Windows
64 bit Windows
Mac OSX (Intel)
Mac OSX (PowerPC)
ABC@home 64 bit apps are much quicker than 32bit.