Supercomputers crack sixty-trillionth binary digit of Pi-squared
Friday, April 29, 2011 - 14:00
in Mathematics & Economics
Australian researchers have done the impossible -- theyve found the sixty-trillionth binary digit of Pi-squared! The calculation would have taken a single computer processor unit (CPU) 1,500 years to calculate, but scientists from IBM and the University of Newcastle managed to complete this work in just a few months on IBM's "BlueGene/P" supercomputer, which is designed to run continuously at one quadrillion calculations per second.