Paul Gage and David Slowinski announced the discovery, using the Cray supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore Lab in California, of their seventh record-breaking prime number: 2^1257787 – 1, a 378,632-digit number. From this point on, the era of supercomputer dominance ends and the era of applications distributed over the Internet begins via ordinary networked personal computers that use the user’s unused computing power.
