Thanks to the technical capabilities of the StorageReview system and Micron Technology, it became possible to determine Archimedes' favorite number with a new level of accuracy. After almost 110 days of continuous calculations on a single server, the American companies broke the record of 300 trillion characters, which belonged to Linus Media Group (Canada) and KIOXIA (USA) and was set on April 2 last year.
Thanks to the technical capabilities of the StorageReview system and Micron Technology, it became possible to determine Archimedes' favorite number with a new level of accuracy. After almost 110 days of continuous calculations on a single server, the American companies broke the record of 300 trillion characters, which belonged to Linus Media Group (Canada) and KIOXIA (USA) and was set on April 2 last year.
This was reported on the official website of the Guinness Book of Records.
To get to the trillion mark, it’s crucial that the server has enough reliable and large storage to run the application. The system that StorageReview deployed consisted of forty Micron 6550 ION NVMe™ SSDs with a capacity of 61.44TB each, one Dell PowerEdge™ R7725 server, and two 192-core AMD EPYC™ processors, which allowed them to squeeze the most out of modern hardware.
In early 2024, StorageReview managed to calculate Pi to the 105 trillionth decimal place, and within a few months they improved their result — this time to the 202 trillionth position.
Many programmers use a computer program called y-cruncher to help them figure out the constant, but with 314 trillion digits to work with, StorageReview needed an incredible amount of free memory to complete the test. With Micron 6550 ION SSDs, they had a total of 2.4 PB (petabytes) of storage: 2.1 PB was used to run the test itself, and 0.3 PB was used to store the results.
“For business and IT leaders, the most important outcome is not peak throughput, but predicted performance in scalable systems,” Micron Technology said after achieving the record. “This record illustrates that high-capacity NVMe drives can shift this balance of power by maintaining continuous availability of data for computing over extended periods, thereby reducing variability and operational risk.”
