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by dsco 934 days ago
Newbie question, could this cluster easily calculate the largest prime number? I've found that the largest known prime number was found back in 2018, which is a while back considering how compute has evolved.
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Finding the largest prime is more a contest of who's willing to commit the most ridiculous amount of compute to the goal than it is a mathematical obstacle.

The cost of finding the next prime is likely into the millions now.