Timeline for Largest known intervals of primes
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| Dec 10, 2019 at 17:50 | comment | added | Gerhard Paseman | Indeed, if instead of 10000 cores we had ten billion cores, we could try having each core work on a trillion numbers and get it done in a few weeks. However, the Gates foundation may still need to underwrite the computation. Gerhard "With One Foundation Feeding Another" Paseman, 2019.12.10. | |
| Dec 10, 2019 at 17:25 | comment | added | Vladimir Dotsenko | I was reading an article the other day (quantamagazine.org/…) which mentions a very hard computational problem that was ultimately resolved by the so called Charity Engine (charityengine.com), coordinating participating computers around the world to create something very powerful. I would not be surprised if this can be utilised to reach $10^{22}$. | |
| Dec 10, 2019 at 17:09 | comment | added | Gerhard Paseman | Looking over this, 10^13 an hour assumes a pretty high clock rate. My guess is that even 10^12 an hour per core with a wheel sieve is unrealistic. So it may actually take a few years with Summit to reach 10^20. Gerhard "Hasn't Started On The Tweets" Paseman, 2019.12.10. | |
| Dec 10, 2019 at 16:56 | history | answered | Gerhard Paseman | CC BY-SA 4.0 |