Yee, using a Google Compute Engine virtual machine cluster. This time around to calculate 100 trillion digits, the computer processed about 82,000 TB of data, it added. Google Clouds Developer Advocate Emma Haruka Iwao has set a new world record for calculating the most digits of pi, using Google Cloud infrastructure to determine that the 100-trillionth. We achieved this feat using y-cruncher, a Pi-benchmark program developed by Alexander J. In August 2009, a Japanese supercomputer called the T2K Open Supercomputer more than doubled the previous record by calculating to roughly 2.6 trillion digits. At 157 days, compared to 121 days spent figuring out a shorter number in 2019, it was going more than twice as fast.Īccording to Iwao, she was using the same tools and techniques, but the enhanced speed is due to how the parts of Google Cloud have improved since then with 100Gbps networking, balanced Persistent Disks, and other features detailed in this deep dive into the calculations.Īnother significant difference is the massive amounts of data processed to calculate numbers this far out.ĭuring the first record-breaking calculation, computers processed about 19,000 TB (terabytes) of data, as per the report. The concept of pi is simple enough for a primary school student to grasp, yet its digits are notoriously difficult to calculate. In 2019, she was able to calculate pi to its 31.4 trillionth digit, and now, using the same Google Cloud y-cruncher programme Iwao was able to find pi to its 100 trillionth digit, which is zero, reports The Verge.Īfter starting the process in October 2021, it took the computers until March 2022 to finish. Tech giant Google's Cloud developer advocate Emma Haruka Iwao has beaten her own record from three years ago for the number of digits calculated for pi. In 2019, we calculated 31.4 trillion digits of - a world record at the time. On Saturday morning at 9.30am, our high-performance computer successfully completed the Pi calculation to exactly 62,831,853,071,796 digits precision.
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