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Mobile Phones vs. Supercomputers of the Past

Posted by timothy on from the crays-are-pure-sculpture dept.

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.

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  1. Clearly, they would be much more impressed... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...by our time machines and shaved privates.

    1. Re:Clearly, they would be much more impressed... by blair1q · · Score: 5, Funny

      If I had a time machine, I'd go into the future, find the future self of my time machine, disassemble it, put it in my time machine, bring it back to the present, reassemble it, then I'd have two time machines.

      I'd never have to buy parts again.

  2. Re:Things like this... by corbettw · · Score: 4, Funny

    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....

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  3. Re:Time machine by amliebsch · · Score: 4, Funny

    If there's "brownian motion" it's really more of a shart.

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