Mobile Phones vs. Supercomputers of the Past 247
An anonymous reader writes "The recently published Top 500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers is based on the Linpack benchmark developed decades ago by Jack Dongarra. This same test has been ported to Android mobile phones, which means that we can compare the performance of our phones against that of the supercomputers of the past. For example, a tweaked Motorola Droid can hit 52 Mflop/s, which is more than 15 times faster than the CPUs used in the 1979 Cray-1." But even today's most powerful cellphones don't come with an integrated bench.
Clearly, they would be much more impressed... (Score:4, Funny)
...by our time machines and shaved privates.
Re:Things like this... (Score:5, Funny)
I was born in 1971. Which means if I were a computer I would be obsolete and replaced by a faster, younger model with prettier looks.
Come to think of it, maybe I am a computer....
Speed (Score:3, Funny)
Did they think they could run their website on a Droid too? Man it is slow.
Re:Clearly, they would be much more impressed... (Score:5, Funny)
If I had a time machine, I'd go into the future, find the future self of my time machine, disassemble it, put it in my time machine, bring it back to the present, reassemble it, then I'd have two time machines.
I'd never have to buy parts again.
Re:Time machine (Score:4, Funny)
If there's "brownian motion" it's really more of a shart.
Re:Crays did proper work (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Speed (Score:3, Funny)
No no, it's running on a Cray-1. If it were running on a Droid, it'd be a bit faster.
[John]
Re:Clearly, they would be much more impressed... (Score:3, Funny)
Except some jerk from the past will someday show up and steal one of your time machines!
Re:Things like this... (Score:4, Funny)
I was born in 1971. Which means if I were a computer I would be obsolete and replaced by a faster, younger model with prettier looks.
Come to think of it, maybe I am a computer....
Take heart! There might be an older, poorly-dressed, socially stunted computer geek willing to collect you for the sheer historical value. Of course, that usually means stored with a dozen other castoffs in the basement. I don't like where this is going.
"what do we do now?" (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Clearly, they would be much more impressed... (Score:3, Funny)
Except some jerk from the past will someday show up and steal one of your time machines!
That's ok, I'll still have one time-machine, so I can repeat the process until that bastard gives up
Re:There was a time (Score:3, Funny)
Having enough $ in your pocket to buy 15 Crays... That is another story.
Re:Things like this... (Score:2, Funny)
a rounding error really
Yeah, but the problem is that it's constantly rounding down...
Re:Things like this... (Score:4, Funny)
I don't like where this is going.
It rubs the cardpunch on its skin, or else it gets the hose again.