According to GIMPS, this is the first time a prime number was not found by an ordinary PC, but rather a “‘cloud supercomputer’ spanning 17 countries” that utilized an Nvidia A100 GPU chip to make the initial diagnosis. The primary architect of this find is Luke Durant, who worked at Nvidia as a software engineer for 11 years

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    1 month ago

    Nobody will use this math in our lifetime.

    That’s a presumption. Have you ever considered that there’s a non-zero chance that you’re wrong?

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      1 month ago

      It’s not a presumption when there is no basis for it all. It’s a fucking fact.

      If there was a segment of society that said “Hey, we really want to do this thing, but we really just need the highest prime number possible! Why won’t anyone find that for us?” Then I’d say OK.

      You’ve got a guy out to beat a record and get his name on the books here. Useless.