{"id":185171,"date":"2024-03-15T14:02:46","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T19:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/pi-calculated-to-105-trillion-digits-smashing-world-record"},"modified":"2024-03-15T14:02:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T19:02:46","slug":"pi-calculated-to-105-trillion-digits-smashing-world-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/pi-calculated-to-105-trillion-digits-smashing-world-record","title":{"rendered":"Pi calculated to 105 trillion digits, smashing world record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pi-calculated-to-105-trillion-digits-smashing-world-record2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The calculation, which took around 75 days to complete, was carried out with 36 of the company\u2019s proprietary solid-state drives (SSDs) \u2014 a storage medium fitted into many of the newest laptops \u2014 that stored altogether around 1 petabyte (1 million gigabytes) of data.<\/p>\n<p>Processors are also needed to perform the number-crunching \u2014 with more powerful components reducing the time it takes to perform the necessary calculations. However, reliable and large-capacity storage is arguably more important because you need to store a massive amount of data in such a process.<\/p>\n<p>The achievement \u201cwas no small feat,\u201d Solidigm owner Brian Beeler said in the statement. \u201cIt involved meticulous planning, optimization, and execution.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The calculation, which took around 75 days to complete, was carried out with 36 of the company\u2019s proprietary solid-state drives (SSDs) \u2014 a storage medium fitted into many of the newest laptops \u2014 that stored altogether around 1 petabyte (1 million gigabytes) of data. Processors are also needed to perform the number-crunching \u2014 with more [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}