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The Lucas-Lehmer Test on Modern GPU Architectures

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The Lucas-Lehmer Test (LLT) is the definitive primality test for Mersenne numbers, but its implementation at the 100-million-digit scale necessitates extreme hardware efficiency. On an H100 GPU, the test relies heavily on the card's ability to perform modular squaring of integers that are too large to fit into standard 64-bit registers. To solve this, the software breaks the massive integer into chunks, applying a Discrete Weighted Transform (DWT), which is a variant of the FFT. The GPU's thousands of CUDA cores are perfectly suited for the parallel nature of the FFT, where the complex "butterfly" operations can be distributed across the silicon. The primary bottleneck is not the raw floating-point performance, but rather the memory bandwidth and the accuracy of the transform. As the numbers grow, the precision required to avoid rounding errors in the FFT increases, requiring double-precision (FP64) units or sophisticated error-correction algorithms that prevent "bit-flips" from invalidating months of work.

Question 2

Distributed Orchestration and Latency Mitigation in Large-Scale Clusters

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Managing a decentralized project that spans 20 countries requires a sophisticated orchestration layer that transcends standard data center management. GIMPS-Cloud utilizes a custom-built scheduling engine that identifies "idle" windows in AI training schedules. When a cluster in Tokyo finishes training a visual model, the GIMPS-Cloud client automatically checkpoints the current primality test work-unit and begins execution. This "scavenging" of compute cycles is highly efficient; it ensures that the power consumed by these massive data centers is used for productive discovery even when commercial demand dips. The orchestration layer must handle the migration of massive state files—often several gigabytes in size—across the network to ensure that a test can continue on a different cluster if a higher-priority AI task resumes on the original hardware.

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