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."
Obviously. (Score:5, Funny)
9.80665 m/s^2
Faster than a Cray Super computer?! (Score:4, Funny)
What fanbois won't say about Apple!
Now, were's the "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of iPads!" jokes?
This just In! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Obviously. (Score:5, Funny)
I think the Cray will have a higher terminal velocity than the iPad
Evolution (Score:2, Funny)
Decades of Moore's law and clever mniaturization lead us to freaking hipster filtering JPEG crap on Instagram, faster. Slow clap.
But... will it blend? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Faster than a Cray Super computer?! (Score:4, Funny)
Their stats are iPadded.
it is so much more than that!! (Score:5, 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!!