This World Record took YEARS (and a Million dollars..)



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When Linus was a young lad, Linus loved using Super PI, a benchmark that calculates PI (who would have thought). Back in the day, he could only calculate 32 million digits of PI, but that was with an old Athlon CPU. Find out how many we can calculate now with the help of KIOXIA (it’s a lot).

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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:47 How did we get here?
2:28 The hardware
5:07 Looking at the compute node
6:52 Some WEKA trickery was needed
8:35 We gotta tune it
9:42 How fast does she go
10:40 Survey says, very fast
11:58 KIOXIA SSDs ROCK
12:45 y-cruncher go time
14:30 Back to August 1, 2024
16:43 Let’s look at some logs
17:30 How long will the record be safe for?
17:52 Linus with the real talk
18:04 It’s all about the journey
18:55 Outro

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