220 000 cores and counting MIT math professor breaks record for largest ever Compute Engine job
220 000 cores and counting MIT math professor breaks record for largest ever Compute Engine job By Alex Barrett, GCP Blog Editor & Michael Basilyan, Product Manager, Compute Engine Editors Note : This post was updated on June 12, 2017. An MIT math professor recently broke the record for the largest ever Compute Engine cluster, with 220,000 cores on Preemptible VMs, the largest known high-performance computing cluster to ever run in the public cloud. Andrew V. Sutherland is a computational number theorist and Principal Research Scientist at MIT, and is using Compute Engine to explore generalizations of the Sato-Tate Conjecture and the conjecture of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer to curves of higher genus. In his latest run, he explored 10 17 hyperelliptic curves of genus 3 in an effort to find curves whose L-functions can be easily computed, and which have potentially interesting Sato-Tate distributions. This yielded about 70,000 curves of interest, each of which will eventuall...