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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. My desktop computer is way more powerful than that by Lord+Lode · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Seriously.

  2. Re:My wristwatch by wiedzmin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Other things that are as fast as Cray 2 supercomputer - about a million ancient PCs... but putting Apple in the title suddenly makes this news.

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  3. Re:OMFG by pdabbadabba · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ever wonder what percentage of people they interviewed actually made it on TV? It's hard to draw general conclusions from a handful of people saying stupid things on TV when saying that very stupid thing was required to get on television. Still: there is no doubt that those were some very stupid people.

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  4. Re:OMFG by whisper_jeff · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Rick Mercer has gone out and talked to Americans and had many an interesting conversation. If that doesn't say something about the mindset of Americans, I don't know what does.

    Here, watch the video if you'd like a sample: http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-7111005509913775935

    See what I did there. I used a comedian's skit where he puts a camera in someone's face and airs the best reactions to make a point. Interesting that, wouldn't you say? Might even relate to the point you're trying to make.