SparkPi

Borrowing from the classic Spark example, this workload computes an approximation of pi. From the Spark examples page: https://spark.apache.org/examples.html

Spark can also be used for compute-intensive tasks. This code estimates π
by "throwing darts" at a circle. We pick random points in the unit square
((0, 0) to (1,1)) and see how many fall in the unit circle. The fraction
should be π / 4, so we use this to get our estimate.

SparkPi is particularly useful for exercising the computing power of Spark without the consideration of heavy I/O from data-reliant workloads.

The timing result of SparkPi will include the estimate of Pi that was generated.

Parameters

Examples

{
  name = "sparkpi"
  slices = 500000000
}

{
  name = "sparkpi"
}