The $1,000,000 PC set a WORLD RECORD

Linus Tech Tips May 16, 2025
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Thanks to KIOXIA for sponsoring this video! Learn more about their fantastic SSDs at: https://americas.kioxia.com/en-us/business/ssd/data-center-ssd.html?utm_source=YouTube&utm_medium=LinusTechTips&utm_campaign=KIOXIA+Data+Center+SSD https://americas.kioxia.com/en-us/business/ssd/enterprise-ssd.html?utm_source=YouTube&utm_medium=LinusTechTips&utm_campaign=KIOXIA+Enterprise+SSD 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). Discuss on the forum: https://linustechtips.com/topic/1612153-this-world-record-took-years-and-a-million-dollars/ Check out Y-Cruncher: https://lmg.gg/y-cruncher Check out Weka: https://lmg.gg/weka Check out the Gigabyte R183-Z95-AAD1 Rack Server: https://lmg.gg/mk898 Buy a TYAN Transport SX TS65A-B8036 NVME Storage Server: https://geni.us/jhkyz Buy an AMD EPYC 9684X 96-Core 2.55GHz Server Processor : https://geni.us/iEM9bE Check out NVIDIA's ConnectX-7 Network Adapters: https://lmg.gg/Sj1lR Buy Micron's 128GB DDR5-5600MHz CL46 ECC RDIMM Memory: https://geni.us/vaeB ► GET OUR MERCH: https://lttstore.com ► GET EXCLUSIVE CONTENT ON FLOATPLANE: https://lmg.gg/lttfloatplane ► GET A VPN: http://www.piavpn.com/linus ► SPONSORS, AFFILIATES, AND PARTNERS: https://lmg.gg/partners Purchases made through some store links may provide some compensation to Linus Media Group. CHAPTERS --------------------------------------------------- 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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