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Mobile Phones vs. Supercomputers of the Past
An anonymous reader writes "The recently published Top 500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers is based on the Linpack benchmark developed decades ago by Jack Dongarra. This same test has been ported to Android mobile phones, which means that we can compare the performance of our phones against that of the supercomputers of the past. For example, a tweaked Motorola Droid can hit 52 Mflop/s, which is more than 15 times faster than the CPUs used in the 1979 Cray-1." But even today's most powerful cellphones don't come with an integrated bench.
...by our time machines and shaved privates.
I was born in 1971. Which means if I were a computer I would be obsolete and replaced by a faster, younger model with prettier looks.
Come to think of it, maybe I am a computer....
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
Did they think they could run their website on a Droid too? Man it is slow.
If there's "brownian motion" it's really more of a shart.
If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.
Ya, well you probably still think digital watches are a neat idea.
"I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."
I was born in 1971. Which means if I were a computer I would be obsolete and replaced by a faster, younger model with prettier looks.
Come to think of it, maybe I am a computer....
Take heart! There might be an older, poorly-dressed, socially stunted computer geek willing to collect you for the sheer historical value. Of course, that usually means stored with a dozen other castoffs in the basement. I don't like where this is going.
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
"Great! A million miles from no-where and I'm stuck with a gungho igauna that tells me to *relax*.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Having 15 Crays in you pocket never wooed a gal.
Having enough $ in your pocket to buy 15 Crays... That is another story.
If I were God, wouldn't I protect my churches from acts of me?
a rounding error really
Yeah, but the problem is that it's constantly rounding down...
I don't like where this is going.
It rubs the cardpunch on its skin, or else it gets the hose again.