The pi record went from 5 trillion digits on a desktop to 314 trillion on one StorageReview server, and it still takes about three months
In 2010 Shigeru Kondo's desktop computed 5 trillion digits of pi in 90 days. In 2025 StorageReview's single Dell server computed 314 trillion in about 110, on forty Micron SSDs. Here's what changed and what didn't.