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From the article: "The team from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) found the new number by linking 75 computers and harnessing their unused pow
by reazalun 18y ago
From the article: "The team from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) found the new number by linking 75 computers and harnessing their unused power. This enabled them to perform the enormous number of calculations needed to find and verify a new prime. "
It's probably just a matter of processing power needed to find that number(s).
- zitterbewegung 18y agoActually the prime was found through GIMPS and that is a vast distributed computing project. See http://www.mersenne.org/ http://www.mersenne.org/
- anamax 18y ago> It's probably just a matter of processing power needed to find that number(s). It's just a matter of strength and technique to run a world record 100 meter.... It's not just processing power, although it was a large amount of processing power, it was knowing how to use it.