Pi record set

[lazarus]

http://gizmodo.com/5606273/this-computer-just-calculated-pi-to-a-world-record-5-trillion-digits
Home made computer, using software from an American grad student. The 5 trillionth digit of pi is 2. Who had that in the pool?

Processor
2 x Intel Xeon X5680 @ 3.33 GHz - (12 physical cores, 24 hyperthreaded)
Memory
96 GB DDR3 @ 1066 MHz - (12 x 8 GB - 6 channels) - Samsung (M393B1K70BH1)
Motherboard
Asus Z8PE-D12
Hard Drives
1 TB SATA II (Boot drive) - Hitachi (HDS721010CLA332)
3 x 2 TB SATA II (Store Pi Output) - Seagate (ST32000542AS)
16 x 2 TB SATA II (Computation) - Seagate (ST32000641AS)
Raid Controller
2 x LSI MegaRaid SAS 9260-8i
Operating System
Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise x64
Built By
Shigeru Kondo

[T Wolf]

1. Who had that in the poo?l - about 10% of us. nt

[cliffordu]

2. Heh. Well played!

[damntexdem]

5. Sounds as easy as pi.

Just pick a random number and wait. ;-)

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

3. All that power and it still can't play Starcraft 2 on max settings.

[qb]

4. Cool! 3.14...2

[damntexdem]

6. But it gets lost in the rounding.

;-)

[Festivito]

7. 43 down, 21 to go, is a good bit of work. /nt

[Ichingcarpenter]

8. When I went to the University my Room mate had a Guinness Record

on citing pi orally. I think he did it to a 100 or so digit. I don't really remember.
Anyway his name was in the record

It was right before anyone had a PC


I wonder if this the same guy with other records on a PC?

Shigeru Kondo



March 23: Record of computation: 1,000,000,000,000 digits for the square root of 2 constant on a single PC by S. Kondo and A.J. Yee.


anuary 7: Record of computation: 10,000,000,000 digits for the constant G(1/4) by S. Kondo & S. Pagliarulo.



December 31: Record of computation: 10,000,000,000 digits for the constant G(1/3) by S. Kondo & S. Pagliarulo.


LInk:

What is new or what is changed in the world of Numbers, Constants and Computation.

http://numbers.computation.free.fr/Constants/news.html



BTW that's one hell of a PC with 12 cores he's got.

[lazarus]

9. IIRC

S Kondo and AJ Yee are the two who set this record. Kondo seems to have a thing for this sort of computation.