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Turkish Sieve Engine V1.0 Launches for Prime Discovery

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A new academic tool called the Turkish Sieve Engine (TSE) V.1.0.0 has been released, designed for efficiently discovering twin and cousin primes. Developed from a methodology published on Zenodo, it boasts a unique N/6 bit data structure that is six times more compact than classical sieves, enabling massive-scale computation with minimal memory.

The engine achieves remarkable performance, reporting a peak throughput of 339.4 billion candidates per second on an NVIDIA RTX 3070 GPU. It replaces costly modular arithmetic with simple integer additions, a hardware-friendly approach that eliminates division overhead. This allows it to process ranges up to 10^14 using just 1.1 GB of VRAM.

TSE features a menu-driven interface requiring no coding knowledge, automatically detecting system hardware. It generates detailed performance reports and has successfully enumerated cousin primes up to the 10^14 limit. The project calls for researchers to submit benchmarks to a global database and aims for future multi-GPU and distributed computing support.