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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (13 children)

It feels like people are celebrating this but hating on ai developments. not sure if these people are hypocritical or if that's two different groups of people.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Size does matter, after all?

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