On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 06:02:12PM +0100, Martin wrote:
>> I was reading a review of the GeForce 200 series GPUs coming soon and saw
>> there was support for the IEEE-754R double-precision floating-point
>> standard. So is this something where we can actually get a port of prime95
>> or mprime to the CUDA architecture?
> Why is it not useful at single precision?

Because you'd need huge increases in the FFT length to get the right answers.

> A GPU should give a tremendous speedup!

Yes, a double-precision GPGPU setup should be highly usable for GIMPS.

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