Dr. Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee has measured the capacity of mathematical calculations of the iPad 2 and concluded that a core processor A5 tablet was as powerful as the supercomputer Cray 2 Quad CPU delivered in 1985. His team has not finished testing, but believes that the use of both processor cores can be mounted to a computing power ranging between 1.5 and 1.65 GFLOPS GFLOPS.
The iPad 2 would have been on lists of the most powerful supercomputers in the world until 1994. The scientist took the iPad 2 as an example because it is one of the most popular digital media today, but the purpose of the study is not to extol the apple products. The University also condemns the price performance ratio of the unit.
Nevertheless, the report would have an order of magnitude. The benchmarks use the famous Linpack program that Dr. Dongarra wrote with other academics. These figures provide insight into the performance gains made by the miniaturization of transistors and the speed of developments which have brought our components (see "Miniaturization of transistors and larger wafers: understanding technological issues).
The power contained in a tablet as the iPad 2 in 1985 asked a supercomputer the size of a washing machine cooled by a liquid fluorocarbon developed by 3M and responding on behalf of Flourinert. The Cray 2 was nicknamed Bubbles (bubbles in French, NLDR) due to the arrangement of the various towers representing a circle.
If the majority of consumers will stop the fact that it is now possible to provide this kind of performance in a much smaller unit, the real contribution is consumption. The supercomputer required a lot more power than a battery-cooled air. Dr. Dongarra is considering creating a cluster of iPad 2 for the design of a new kind of supercomputer.
It should nevertheless be jailbroken and use models based on the Wi-Fi to communicate with each other slates. 
The iPad 2 would have been on lists of the most powerful supercomputers in the world until 1994. The scientist took the iPad 2 as an example because it is one of the most popular digital media today, but the purpose of the study is not to extol the apple products. The University also condemns the price performance ratio of the unit.
Nevertheless, the report would have an order of magnitude. The benchmarks use the famous Linpack program that Dr. Dongarra wrote with other academics. These figures provide insight into the performance gains made by the miniaturization of transistors and the speed of developments which have brought our components (see "Miniaturization of transistors and larger wafers: understanding technological issues).
The power contained in a tablet as the iPad 2 in 1985 asked a supercomputer the size of a washing machine cooled by a liquid fluorocarbon developed by 3M and responding on behalf of Flourinert. The Cray 2 was nicknamed Bubbles (bubbles in French, NLDR) due to the arrangement of the various towers representing a circle.
If the majority of consumers will stop the fact that it is now possible to provide this kind of performance in a much smaller unit, the real contribution is consumption. The supercomputer required a lot more power than a battery-cooled air. Dr. Dongarra is considering creating a cluster of iPad 2 for the design of a new kind of supercomputer.
It should nevertheless be jailbroken and use models based on the Wi-Fi to communicate with each other slates.
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