Apple iPad 2 As Fast As the Cray-2 Supercomputer

Posted by timothy on Monday September 17, 2012 @09:00AM 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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Obviously. by Kaenneth · 2012-09-17 09:03 · Score: 5, Funny

9.80665 m/s^2
1. Re:Obviously. by Bigby · 2012-09-17 09:11 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I think the Cray will have a higher terminal velocity than the iPad
This just In! by Ziggitz · 2012-09-17 09:09 · 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.

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