41 million digits of prime found by datacenter GPUs

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A former Nvidia engineer has found the largest known prime number – a whopping 41 million digits long – using an A100 GPU made by his previous workplace to do the grunt work.

This wasn’t the CPU-heavy hunt for primes that we’ve typically…

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https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/23/41_million_digit_prime/