This Computer Just Calculated Pi To a World Record 5 Trillion Digits

They didnt even overclock it, amateurs!!!!!!!!

Wouldnt a few GTX480s in TRI SLI be able to do this a lot faster using Nvidia Tesla?
 
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I would be to scared to overclock 2 of those cpus. Im not waiting days to find out it would crash after being 1 digit away from world record.
 
At the last digit, a beloved 'BSoD' because of an overclock would be pretty embarrassing for the PC builder :)
 
ishoeyi said:
"Kondo, a Japanese engineer, built the $18,000 machine"

was an engineer really needed to build a pc?
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It was probably coincedence he was an engineer..

edit: A true pc user.

"alone in his room, around midnight, when the five trillionth digit dropped, though his mother and wife, he said, showed "no particular feelings" about his achievement"
 
Skillmister said:
It was probably coincedence he was an engineer..

edit: A true pc user.

"alone in his room, around midnight, when the five trillionth digit dropped, though his mother and wife, he said, showed "no particular feelings" about his achievement"
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what else was he watching on his screen at midnight ? :D i dont think he was watching numbers turn.
 
If i was speaking to him on msn and he was about to copy and paste to me his findings. I would be dead before my pc processes it all.
 
How do we really know this is true? Has someone sat and counted it all just to make sure the number really is that high?

Maybe the computer is lying :D
 
Even so, does this actually sound impressive to people?
When we run superPi test we quickly calculate Pi using a single thread to 1 million places, or 32 million etc.

When dealing in such large amount 5 trillion really doesn't sound that much to me, surprised it took 90 days tbh.
I assume this has already been done on large arrays and supercomputers, as they spoke of his achiving it with a homebuilt single computer, rather than anything else.

What is the theoretical FLOPs or equivalent of his PC when compared with some chap from here with an OCed i920 at 4.4?
 
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'But beyond setting the world record, what Yee and Kondo really wanted was to push the very limits of personal computing. Or, as they put it, to see "how much hardware can we cram into one machine and still make it faster?" '
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They had 1 boot drive, 3 storage drives, and 16 computational drives.
I dispute the fact they had it all 'crammed' into 1 machine. The pictures clearly show they did not. The only thing they appeared to have one of, is a single motherboard.
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
What is the theoretical FLOPs or equivalent of his PC when compared with some chap from here with an OCed i920 at 4.4?
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Well, it has two Xeon six-core CPUs at 3.33Ghz. Looks like those CPUs are just the server version of the i7 980X - the same chip, but more expensive. So if you just got a single 980X and clocked it to 4.4, you'd be about two-thirds as fast.
 
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