Calculating a record-breaking 31.4T digits of Pi with GCP

Using Compute Engine, Google Cloud’s high-performance infrastructure as a service offering, has a number of benefits over using dedicated physical machines. We ran 25 nodes for 111.8 days, or 2,795 machine-days (7.6 machine-years), during which time Google Cloud performed thousands of live migrations uninterrupted and with no impact on the calculation process. Running in the cloud also let us publish the computed digits entirely as disk snapshots.

Source: cloud.google.com