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<h2 id="background-information">Background information</h2> <p>In August 1995, the <a href="/facts/Calculation/MHq42Sjw">calculation</a> of Pi up to 4,294,960,000 decimal digits was achieved by using a <a href="/facts/Supercomputer/HT9NwGAN">supercomputer</a> at the University of Tokyo. The program used to achieve this was <a href="/facts/Porting/7s6tFs8B">ported</a> to personal computers, for operating systems such as <a href="/facts/Microsoft_Windows/bwhAhuSL">Windows</a> NT and Windows 95 and called <a href="/facts/Super-PI/nRQLWCLJ">Super-PI</a>. SuperPrime is another take on this procedure, substituting raw floating-point calculations for the value of Pi with more complex instructions to calculate the primality of a set of natural numbers. </p> <h2 id="landmarks">Landmarks</h2> <p>On September 29, 2006, a milestone was broken when bachus_anonym of www.xtremesystems.org broke the 30 seconds barrier using a highly <a href="/facts/Overclocking/wNpjgAFI">overclocked</a> <a href="/facts/Core_2_Duo/lwa8VSdT">Core 2 Duo</a> machine <a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <p>Erodov.com, the 'home forum' for the SuperPrime benchmark. </p> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://www.erodov.com/forums/superprime-new-multi-threaded-benchmark/27.html">Main Thread @ www.erodov.com</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061028031356/http://www.techenclave.com/forums/superprime/">"SuperPrime™ - A benchmark to reckon with! [Archive site]"</a>. 2006-10-28. Archived from <a href="http://www.techenclave.com/forums/superprime/">the original</a> on 2006-10-28. Retrieved 2019-12-23.</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"New Benchmark: SuperPrime 0.14beta - Page 2". <a href="http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=1745613&postcount=29" target="_blank">http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=1745613&postcount=29</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>