Apple iPad 2 As Fast As The Cray-2 Super Computer

[schmidtbag]

very fascinating article. hah imagine if someone took a bunch of discarded/retired smartphones and made a cluster server out of them to beat out an even greater supercomputer.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Apple iPad 2 As Fast As The Cray-2 Super Computer

A university research director has shown that Apple's iPad 2 is as fast as the Cray-2 vector super-computer out of Cray Research from the 1980's. With some work to to the software, the iPad 2 performance benchmark result is quite impressive...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTE4NjU