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 data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.storagereview.com/review/storagereview-sets-new-pi-record-314-trillion-digits-on-a-dell-poweredge-r7725″ data-url=”https://www.storagereview.com/review/storagereview-sets-new-pi-record-314-trillion-digits-on-a-dell-poweredge-r7725″ target=”_blank” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link”>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,…
