Overall the whole computation took 108 days and 9 hours to complete.
"It took me about one month to tune different parameters of the operating system and y-cruncher (the pi calculation program)," said Keller. The hardware assembly and the installation of the operating system took about three days, but that was only the beginning.
First 100 trillion digits of pi software#
The attempt was led by DAViS (Centre for Data Analytics, Visualisation and Simulation), a regional competence centre for research, industry and education that operates within the University of Applied Science of the Grisnos located in Chur, Switzerland.Īs stated in their project summary, DAViS' machine used the operating system Ubuntu 20.04 on the computation unit.įor the calculation, like for all the previous most accurate value of pi records, it used the software y-cruncher (developed by Alexander J. The record-breaking value counts 62,831,853,071,796 digits, as confirmed by project leader Thomas Keller and his team on 19 August 2021, adding 12.8 billion new digits to pi. Using a high-performance computer, a team of Swiss researchers have calculated a new most accurate value of pi. Grab yourself a slice of pie, because an e pic π record was set in Switzerland. On International Pi Day (3/14, the first three digits of π), scientists worldwide celebrate the number through competitions, presentations and… of course, eating pie!
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