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  1. madars · · focus · HN ↗
    More details: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;sweis&#x2F;status&#x2F;2101484464807596264" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;sweis&#x2F;status&#x2F;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.
    1. weinzierl · · focus · HN ↗
      What does &quot;scavenged idle capacity&quot; mean here?
      1. JoshTriplett · · focus · HN ↗
        The author works at Anthropic, so probably idle capacity in Anthropic&#x27;s datacenters.
        1. gosub100 · · focus · HN ↗
          &quot;idle capacity&quot; - aka subtle advertisement
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