SuperPI has become an utility to benchmark modern systems. In August 1995, the calculation of pi up to 4,294,960,000 decimal digits was succeeded by using a supercomputer at the University of Tokyo. The program was written by D.Takahashi and he collaborated with Dr. Y.Kanada at the computer center, the University of Tokyo. This record-breaking program was ported to personal computer environment such as Windows NT and Windows 95 and called Super PI.

The software offers up to 32M calculations of PI numbers. We tested up to 8M calculations and summed them for a total score.

Summing all SuperPI scores, gives us a clearer overview of which system produced the lowest calculation time. Due to its higher memory performance, the Shuttle SD33G5M was 6.11secs faster than the Shuttle SD32G2.