[ExI] drought has ended!

[BillK]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 at 01:44, spike jones via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> Woohoooo!  GIMPS announced today that a new Mersenne prime has been found:
> https://www.mersenne.org/primes/?press=M136279841
>
> We were in a really long Mersenne prime drought.  Six years since the last discovery.
> Congratulations everyone!
>
> spike
> _______________________________________________


Article explains how Nvidia GPUs have taken over the computing tasks
from Intel CPUs.
<https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/23/41_million_digit_prime/>
Quotes:
41-million-digit prime crunched by datacenter GPUs
Former Nvidia engineer's discovery shows graphics compute can kick
some serious ass
Gavin Bonshor     Wed 23 Oct 2024

This wasn't the CPU-heavy hunt for primes that we've typically seen.
No, this time GPUs, ones more widely used for the datacenter, did all
of the heavy lifting, leveraging their high levels of parallel
processing power to crack the calculations that CPUs just can't keep
up with.
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BillK