A former NVIDIA engineer has used an NVIDIA A100 GPU to discover the largest known prime number, M136279841. This discovery highlights the incredible computational power of modern GPUs beyond just gaming. The prime number, which is a Mersenne prime, is a massive 41,024,320 digits long and weighs in at 18.3MB.
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An amateur researcher and former Nvidia employee, Luke Durant, has discovered the largest known prime number, surpassing the previous record holder by more than 16 million digits. This discovery, made using a free program called GIMPS, involved thousands of GPUs across 24 data centers in 17 countries. The new prime number, 2^136,279,841 – 1, contains over 41 million decimal digits and is the 52nd known Mersenne prime.