  This preprint makes the claim of having computed the $9^{th}$ Dedekind
Number. This was done by building an efficient FPGA Accelerator for the core
operation of the process, and parallelizing it on the Noctua 2 Supercluster at
Paderborn University. The resulting value is
286386577668298411128469151667598498812366. This value can be verified in two
steps. We have made the data file containing the 490M results available, each
of which can be verified separately on CPU, and the whole file sums to our
proposed value.
