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New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer (sherwood.news)

submitted 2 weeks ago by gedaliyah@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] locuester@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

They mention nvidia because that’s the hardware used to find/prove.

I find it quite relevant to have the person/ group, the strategy or method, and the device used (including chipsets). Most articles on prime number discovery will mention all these things.

The fact that he worked there seems pretty irrelevant tho.

[–] sus@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

also the person apparently spent 2 million dollars to find the number. and the money is probably from stock compensation from nvidia