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Tell HN: GpuOwl/PRPLL, GPU software used to find the largest prime number
12 by mpreda | 8 comments on Hacker News.
Hi, I'm Mihai Preda the author of GpuOwl/PRPLL [1], an OpenCL software used by Luke Durant for his recent discovery of the largest prime number know, the 52nd Mersenne prime 2^136279841 - 1 [2]. Feel free to ask questions about technical aspects of the GpuOwl implementation, about optimizations, tricks, efficient FFT implementation on GPUs etc. Or anything else. [1] GpuOwl: https://ift.tt/dn4Ntqf [2] GIMPS: https://ift.tt/I1SuyK7