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Glen David Short
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Swiss researchers calculate pi to new record of 62.8tn figures: "Supercomputer calculation took 108 days and nine hours – 3.5 times as fast as previous record" https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/...w-record-of-628tn-figures
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BladeD
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Nov 17, 2004 Post Count: 28976 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I didn't see any information on the specs of the supercomputer.
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Acibant
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I didn't see any information on the specs of the supercomputer. Not a supercomputer. Bad reporting by the generalist press. It's a server with two AMD Epyc 7542 processors using 1 TB RAM and a NAS with 510 TB storage. Specs. Here is a video from Dr. Ian Cutress (Anandtech contributor) covering more details and also talking about how many in the media reported it prior to validation which is not a surprise given how many don't understand what a supercomputer is.  |
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BladeD
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Wow, the big surprise to me is the memory and storage size...using 1 TB RAM and a NAS with 510 TB storage.
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Glen David Short
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Here is a video from Dr. Ian Cutress (Anandtech contributor) covering more details and also talking about how many in the media reported it prior to validation which is not a surprise given how many don't understand what a supercomputer is. Yes, not really a supercomputer. But, btw, what interesting video! He explains his points in a very simple manner easy for the non-scientist to understand. I checked the verification webpage he cites, and the Swiss effort has already been verified, only took 34 hours compared to 108 days for the original computation: http://numberworld.org/digits/Pi/ |
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alged
Master Cruncher FRANCE Joined: Jun 12, 2009 Post Count: 2340 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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It's really an accomplishment.I just read a title line about that but now thanks to all yr infos above i understand better
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