i7 versus T2K

[ScottALot]

I love hearing about the i7 and its triumphs because it makes me feel better that I'll be buying one and that is is, in fact, worth the money. Hears a little article from Maximum PC:

There's a guilty pleasure in seeing the "masters of the universe" knocked down a notch or two. So, news that the record for calculating Pi, set by the T2K Open Supercomputer, was not just broken but smashed by a lowly Core i7 machine was warmly received.
The feat was performed by Fabrice Bellard. He pieced together a system using a Core i7 CPU running at 2.93GHz, 6GB of RAM, five 1.5TB Seagate Barracudas in RAID 0, and the 64-bit version of Red Hat Fedora 10. He then started up a Pi algorithm based on the Chudnovsky formula and let it rip. After 103 days, he had Pi calculated out to 2.7 trillion decimal digits. The number required 1,137GB of storage space. - BS

I like how the initials of the guy who wrote the article are the same that mean bull****.

 

[Gooberman]

go i7s!!!

 

[bomberboysk]

Just remember that the core i7 based unit probably took a few orders of magnitude longer to calculate the number though.