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Apple iPad 2 As Fast As the Cray-2 Supercomputer

Posted by timothy on from the great-I'll-take-a-dozen dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Presenting at the IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing conference, a researcher from the University of Tennessee presented evidence that the iPad 2 is as fast as the original Cray-2 supercomputer. Performance improvements were made to the iPad 2 LINPACK software by writing Python for generating and testing various Assembly routines. The researcher also found that the ARM Cortex-A9 easily beats the NVIDIA/AMD GPUs and latest Intel/AMD workstation CPUs in performance-per-Watt efficiency."

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  1. Obviously. by Kaenneth · · Score: 5, Funny

    9.80665 m/s^2

    1. Re:Obviously. by Bigby · · Score: 5, Funny

      I think the Cray will have a higher terminal velocity than the iPad

  2. Faster than a Cray Super computer?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    What fanbois won't say about Apple!

    Now, were's the "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of iPads!" jokes?

    1. Re:Faster than a Cray Super computer?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Their stats are iPadded.

  3. This just In! by Ziggitz · · Score: 5, Funny

    Newer smaller computer is faster than older larger computer! Some didn't think it possible, one of those people submitted the article under the false impression that anyone gave a fuck.

    --
    There is no memory shortage. yes I have heard of XFCE. Go away.
  4. Evolution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Decades of Moore's law and clever mniaturization lead us to freaking hipster filtering JPEG crap on Instagram, faster. Slow clap.

  5. But... will it blend? by cpotoso · · Score: 4, Funny

    Will the cray2 blend as well as the ipad2?

  6. it is so much more than that!! by jsveiga · · Score: 4, Funny

    It has been demonstrated that the ipad 2 is lighter than an Apple II.

    The ipad 2 user interface has been tested and proven much better than the Zilog Z80's.

    On a blind test, the ipad's screen resolution has been voted subjectively better than the MSX's!

    And an independent research confirmed that it has more available apps than the HP41C!

    In a random test with a control group, 3 out of 5 teenagers prefer the ipad when offered the option of an ipad or a Newton, and 2 out of 4 girls prefer the ipad over Justin "Beaver".

    Oh my God, the ipad is really the best thing in the whole universe! No, it has been demonstrated that it is better than 5 universes put together with whipped cream and strawberries on top!!