Pi calculation world record shattered at 314 trillion digits with a four-month run on a single server — StorageReview retakes the crown, thanks to storage bandwidth
StorageReview takes the Pi crown again with 314 trillion digits calculated
The competition to calculate digits of Pi was initially an informal pursuit but grew more serious over time. Our server-oriented colleagues at StorageReview have proven that storage performance can make or break a Pi run, setting their latest record at a whopping 314 million digits with a single server that ran for four months.
Calculating Pi quickly became a way to benchmark the floating-point performance of CPUs. As the calculations grew ever larger, however, the task became more complicated, as RAM, I/O architectures, and storage systems came into play. That's a point StorageReview clearly illustrated by achieving a record with a single 2U server over a four-month calculation run.
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