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Pi calculated to '62.8 trillion digits' with a pair of 32-core AMD Epyc chips, 1TB RAM, 510TB disk space

karlkarl Silver badge

Would all those threads provided by the AMD chip actually be beneficial for this specific task?

It isn't an easy problem to break up into parallel equations is it?

I mean, yeah its convenient that they can also surf the web and answer emails whilst their machine is crunching away but I am fairly certain they have other machines for that ;)

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