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Re:Homemade computer calculates pi to 10 trillion digits by brianobush on Sunday October 23, 2011 @04:13PM (#3147121)
It is about pushing limits with a home computer. The processor itself was a 12 core Xeon processor, but all of the storage required - both RAM and disk is quite impressive.

I am working on a similar brute-force analysis, but I have access to a datacenter with many machines. Not so impressive.

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Re:Homemade computer calculates pi to 10 trillion digits by ithkuil on Monday October 24, 2011 @08:27AM (#3149300)
I never considered the details of Pi digit calculation, but I was surprised to see how it's very dependent on IO:

"For large computations, the bottleneck is either memory bandwidth or disk bandwidth depending on the number of hard drives and their configuration."

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