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.

Comments

Proof that Seymour Was a Moron!

[Baldrson]

And Seymour Cray had his own full time staff running around doing his bidding in his own little kingdom with hundreds of millions of dollars in business -- and he couldn't do any better than a third world call girl can today. So much for Cray's "genius"! Moreover, I think we can safely say that the rinky-dink bike shop of the Wright Brothers producing a glorified kite with a lawn mower engine when compared to the Saturn V demonstrates that retrograde idiocy of those who claim that independent yeoman inventors are the real contributors to technological advance.

Re:Things like this...

[sznupi]

Car-powered cities is not strictly a good thing...