Record-setting Linux

[JRViejo]

I know the value of pi (Π), the irrational number you get when you divide the circumference of a circle by its diameter, as far as 3.14159; after that, I'm clueless. Recently, French software engineer Fabrice Bellard calculated the value of pi to 2.7 trillion numbers — with a souped-up but otherwise ordinary home PC running Red Hat's Fedora Linux.

Computerworld Article by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols.

[NGRhodes]

What is interesting is that they managed to out compute the top super computers by what appears to be a good chunk of clever programming techniques.