Apple iPad 2 As Fast As the Cray-2 Supercomputer 231
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."
My desktop computer is way more powerful than that (Score:5, Insightful)
Seriously.
Re:OMFG (Score:3, Insightful)
Well, you could basically do that with any other phone, and everyone who doesn't know the older generation phone will react this way.
This says more about psychology and especially trust in authority figures than anything about the iPhone or even phones for that matter.
Re:My wristwatch (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.
Re:OMFG (Score:5, 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.
Re:OMFG (Score:4, 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 [google.ca]
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.
Pretty stupid gag (Score:2, Insightful)
Jimmy Kimmel recently went out on the street with an iPhone 4S and passed it off as the new iPhone 5 and asked people what they thought of it. Not one of them realized it was the old iPhone 4S
Why would they? No-one has seen an iPhone 5, so they would be inclined to believe someone who said it was regardless of what you gave them. I didn't get the point of this at all, even as a joke it was just absurd.
I mean, a guy with a camera crew shows up and hands you an object and says it is "X" and asks for thoughts. Are you going to disbelieve it's what they say it is?