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

  • @mipadaitu
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    32 hours ago

    Sync for Lemmy.

    Here’s the source of their comment.

    • tb_
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      41 hour ago

      Sync still uses Reddit’s markdown rules, Lemmy is a little different.