- Linus Tech -Tip and Kioxia have smashed the PI calculation world record
- 300 trillion digits of PI were calculated using Kioxia NVME SSD cluster
- The seven-month computer effort ended with Guinness Recognition
After Storageerview Previously claimed the PI calculation world record with over 202 trillion digits, now Linus Media Group, creators of Linus Tech Tip YouTube channel, has taken it even longer.
In collaboration with Kioxia, LMG officially set a new one Guinness world record For the “most accurate value of PI” when the incredible 300 trillion digits.
This milestone was obtained using a high performance storage setup with 2.2 PB of Kioxia’s CM Series 30.72TB and CD series 15.36TB PCIE NVME SSDS.
Seven months and no SSD error
The drives were organized in a NAS system connected to a double-CPU computer server. The entire operation ran continuously for almost seven and a half months.
“We knew it would be difficult to break the PI record with distributed network storage – no one had done so before because of the benefits of remote storage,” said Jake Tivy, Writer & Host, Linus Media Group.
“Fortunately for us, we enabled us reliability and performance of Kioxia’s NVME SSDs to run continuous, intensive calculation operations at speeds up to 100+ GB/SI almost seven months in a row without a single SSD -Fiasko.”
The project not only broke the previous record, but did it with a wide margin. Storageerview‘s 202 trillion digit milestone was huge but it was not officially verified by Guinness world records.
The last recognized benchmark from Guinness was 62 trillion digits, so this new effort pushed this number almost five times higher.
“To reach one Guinness world records The title of the most accurate value of PI is a huge achievement that emphasizes the courage to take on a challenge and power in great collaboration and teamwork, “said Axel Stoermann, vice president and CTO of embedded memory and SSD in Kioxia Europe.
“Kioxia America’s successful collaboration with Linus Media Group enabled the demonstration of the robust capabilities of our NVME SSDS during the most demanding workloads. We will continue to promote the capabilities of our flash memory and SSD technology to support supercomputing applications,” he added.
Linus Tech Tips channel released a video documenting the bet you can see below. It also revealed the final digit of the record -breaking result. (Spoiler Alert, the 300 billional digit of PI is 5.)
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