Mathematical triumph: Pi calculated to a record 314 trillion digits on a single server (photo)
Category: IT technologies, PEGI 0+
Today, 02:27
StorageReview Labs set a new world accuracy record by calculating pi to 314 trillion decimal places. Unlike previous achievements, which relied on cloud clusters, the engineers performed all calculations on a single physical Dell PowerEdge R7725 server. The hardware ran continuously for 110 days, powered by two 192-core AMD EPYC processors and an array of 40 ultra-fast Micron drives, each with 61.44 TB of storage capacity. Contrary to concerns about sky-high electricity bills, the system proved remarkably energy-efficient: over four months of 24/7 testing, the server consumed only 4,305 kWh of electricity, comparable to running household appliances and costing the developers just a few hundred dollars. 
