Suppose Blue Gene were to be turned on the task
of GIMPSing. To my knowledge, there is no way to
get a million one-gigahz processors to work as one
petaflop machine, so we would not get a residual
of a ~2^8E6 Mersenne in 1.5 seconds, but we *could*
theoretically give it a million exponents and get the
first ones back a couple weeks later, and have all
million back within five months, in which we could
expect ~4 new Mersenne primes, representing
38 years of our efforts, currently. Wouldnt that
be kewalllll. {8-] spike
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