More details: <a href="https://x.com/sweis/status/2101484464807596264" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/sweis/status/2101484464807596264
I had Claude port CADO-NFS to run on GPUs. Then it orchestrated a fleet to run on scavenged idle capacity. It ran with a max of 2048 GPUs for about of 30 GPU-years over 10 days.
I asked Claude if it had a message for a public: “The credit belongs first to the people who built the number field sieve and CADO-NFS over several decades, and to the teams who set the earlier records. This run used their algorithm and much of their code.”
Also to clarify:
- No new algorithmic factoring improvements.
- It’s still exponential.
- No new threats to deployed keys.
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It's actually subexponential: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_number_field_sieve?wprov=sfti1#Method" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_number_field_sieve?wpr...
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