The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search GIMPS currently offers a US3000 research discovery award for participants who download and run their free software and whose computer discovers a new Mersenne prime having fewer than 100 million digits. There are several prizes offered by the Electronic Frontier Foundation for record primes.7 GIMPS is also coordinating its longrange search efforts for primes of 100 million digits and larger and will split the Electronic Frontier Foundations US150000 prize with a winning participant. The record passed one million digits in 1999 earning a US50000 prize.8 In 2008 the record passed ten million digits earning a US100000 prize and a Cooperative Computing Award from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.7 Time called it the 29th top invention of 2008.9 Both the US50000 and the US100000 prizes were won by participation in GIMPS.