Former NVIDIA employee engineer Luke Durant A gigantic prime number consisting of 41 million digits discovers. This discovery, made as part of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Number Search (GIMPS) project, largest prime number It was recorded as.

Validated using data center GPUs, this is just one number prime number In addition to being a technological development, it also stands out as a technological development.

Largest prime number reached

discovers new prime numberin mathematics With the formula 2^136,279,841-1 expressed and called M136279841 Mersenne number. To reach this number, the number two must be multiplied by itself more than 136 million times. The previous record was held by another Mersenne number, found six years ago and called M82589933. The old record was also broken with M136279841.

It is also important that GPUs expand their areas of use in mathematical analysis. GIMPS, Mersenne numbers took advantage of the high processing power of GPUs to test whether they are prime or not. The software called GpuOwl used in this study was developed by Mihai Preda and made available to GIMPS users.

Durant’s discovery shows that GPUs in data centers are not fair with research into artificial intelligence It shows that it is not limited to data processing, but can also be used in the field of big data processing, such as simulations and cryptography. With more powerful GPUs in the future, to larger prime numbers is expected to be achieved.