Anyone for a slice of record Pi? New landmark sees 314 trillion digits calculated as news site trounces Google Cloud - for now
Storage throughput determined success more than raw processor count
· TechRadarNews By Efosa Udinmwen published 18 December 2025
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- StorageReview’s physical server calculated 314 trillion digits without a distributed cloud infrastructure
- The entire computation ran continuously for 110 days without interruption
- Energy use dropped dramatically compared with previous cluster-based Pi records
A new benchmark in large-scale numerical computation has been set with the calculation of 314 trillion digits of pi on a single on-premises system.
The run was completed by StorageReview, overtaking earlier cloud-based efforts, including Google Cloud’s 100 trillion digit calculation from 2022.
Unlike hyperscale approaches that relied on massive distributed resources, this record was achieved on one physical server using tightly controlled hardware and software choices.
Runtime and system stability
The calculation ran continuously for 110 days, which is significantly shorter than the roughly 225 days required by the previous large-scale record, even though that earlier effort produced fewer digits.
The uninterrupted execution was attributed to operating system stability and limited background activity
It also depends on balanced NUMA topology and careful memory and storage tuning designed to match the behavior of the y-cruncher application.
The workload was treated less like a demonstration and more like a prolonged stress test of production-grade systems.
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