Posted by tpc at January 15th, 2010

Announcement here https://documents.epfl.ch/users/l/le/lenstra/public/papers/rsa768.txt.
It was done on 12 Dec 2009 using NFS.

If you visit the webpage of Laboratory for Crytologic Algorithms, part of the team that accomplished this feat, you’ll see that they actually test algorithms on a PS3 cluster. I wonder if the experiment results are ever undermined by students trying to hijack the PS3s to play games.