One year, 41 million digits: How he found the largest known prime number The Washington Post Article Source https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2024/10/23/nvidia-prime-mersenne-gpu-cloud/
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… Article Source https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/23/41_million_digit_prime/
Move aside 282,589,933-1, there’s a new prime juggernaut in town. That’s right: A researcher and former NVIDIA employee has found 2136,279,841-1, the largest known prime number, which clears the… Article Source https://gizmodo.com/nvidia-computer-finds-largest-known-prime-blows-past-record-by-16-million-digits-2000514948