Google Takes Over
On this year’s pi day, Google announced a new world record in computing most digits of pi. By computing digits,…
Celebrating π-Day
The pi record computation of DECTRIS has survived more than 4 months from November 2016 until 3/14/17, which is Albert Einstein’s…
All 22.4 Trillion Digits of My Pi World Record
Pi is not only 3.1415926535. Get all digits of my pi world record to create music, visualisations, games or scientific…
Summing Up
Last week I had the opportunity to present the venture of calculating π with a world record accuracy to my colleagues…
Hitting the Target
This morning, the world record computation of pi finally completed. Thereby the 105 days long calculation comes to a successful…
Hexadecimal Digits are Correct
This week I’m attending a conference in Strasbourg. While following the opening plenary, I log in to the server, on…
Disk is Full
Some days ago, I suddenly found the following error message on my screen: At first, I simply restarted the computation…
60% Milestone Passed
35 days after starting the computation, 60% of the series has already been summed. Against my expectations, all 20 discs…
3, 2, 1, Go!
Yesterday afternoon two colleagues kindly helped me to mount the π-Storage in a rack in our server room and to…
The π-Storage
Today we received the 24 hard drives and the housing for our π-storage. We decided to use Enterprise NAS HDDs…
Gamma and the Golden Donkey
It’s a sunny morning here in Baden-Dättwil, where the new business premises of my employer are located. Close to the…