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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
by brianobush 15y ago
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.
- ithkuil 15y agoI 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."