- Linus Tech and Kioxia tips have broken the world record of Pi Calculation
- 300 billion pi digits were calculated using Kioxia NVME SSD cluster
- The seven -month computing effort ended with Guinness’s recognition
After Storagereview Previously he claimed the world record of Pi calculation with more than 202 billion digits, now Linus Media Group, the creators of the Linus technological tips YouTube channel, has taken it even further.
Working with Kioxia, LMG officially established a new Guinness world record For the “most precise Pi value”, it reaches an incredible digits of 300 billion billion.
This milestone was achieved using a high performance storage configuration with 2.2PB of the CM series of 30.72TB and CD Series 15.36TB PCIE NVME SSDS.
Seven months and without SSD failures
The units were organized in a NAS system connected to a double CPU computer server. The entire operation worked continuously for almost seven and a half months.
“We knew that breaking the PI record with distributed network storage was going to be difficult: nobody had really done it before due to the performance challenges associated with remote storage,” said Jake Tivy, writer and host, Linus Media Group.
“Fortunately for us, the reliability and performance of the SSD NVME of Kioxia allowed us to execute continuous and intensive computation operations at speeds of up to more than 100 GB/s for almost seven months in a row, without a single SSD failure.”
The project not only broke the previous record, but did it by a wide margin. StoragereviewThe milestone of 202 billion digits was huge, but was not officially verified by Guinness World Records.
Guinness’s last recognized reference was 62 billion digits, so this new effort promoted that almost five times higher number.
“Reach a Guinness World Records The title for the most precise value of Pi is a tremendous achievement, emphasizing the courage to assume a challenge and power of great cooperation and teamwork, “said Axel Stoermann, vice president and CTO for integrated memory and SSD in Kioxia Europe.
“The successful collaboration of Kioxia America with Linus Media Group allowed the demonstration of the robust capabilities of our SSD NVME under the most demanding workloads. We will continue advancing in the capabilities of our flash memory and SSD technology to admit supercomputing applications,” he added.
The Linus Tech tips channel launched a video that documes the effort that can be seen below. He also revealed the final digit of the record result. (Spoiler alert, the 300 billionth digit of Pi is 5.)
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