Re:A fleet of computers helps settle a 90-year-old math problem
by plafl on Thursday August 27, 2020 @05:01AM
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I had to search the original publication to see what kind of computer cluster they used. Here it is in case you are curious:
"We ran all three experiments simultaneously on 20 nodes on the Lonestar5 cluster and computing on 24 CPUs per node in parallel."
It seems it took less than an hour. I think that calling it a "fleet of computers" is a little too much. It makes it look like they brute-forced the problem while the truth is that as usually the merit was on the algorithm.
"We ran all three experiments simultaneously on 20 nodes on the Lonestar5 cluster and computing on 24 CPUs per node in parallel."
It seems it took less than an hour. I think that calling it a "fleet of computers" is a little too much. It makes it look like they brute-forced the problem while the truth is that as usually the merit was on the algorithm.