{"id":3508,"date":"2011-05-10T11:23:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T10:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=3508"},"modified":"2011-05-10T11:25:11","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T10:25:11","slug":"ipad-2-vs-supercomputers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=3508","title":{"rendered":"iPad 2 vs Supercomputers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago I wrote an article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=2684\">comparing mobile phones with ancient supercomputers<\/a> and today I learned that <a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/09\/the-ipad-in-your-hand-as-fast-as-a-supercomputer-of-yore\/\">Jack Dongarra has run his Linpack benchmark on the iPad 2<\/a> and discovered that it has enough processing power to rival the Cray 2; the most powerful supercomputer in the world back in 1985.\u00a0 According to Jack, the iPad 2 is so powerful that it would have stayed in the top 500 list of world&#8217;s most powerful super computers until 1994.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a lot of power!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other iPad articles on WalkingRandomly<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=2692\">Math on the iPad #1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=2947\">Math on the iPad #2<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago I wrote an article on comparing mobile phones with ancient supercomputers and today I learned that Jack Dongarra has run his Linpack benchmark on the iPad 2 and discovered that it has enough processing power to rival the Cray 2; the most powerful supercomputer in the world back in 1985.\u00a0 According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[43,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ipad","category-just-for-fun"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3swhs-UA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3508"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3510,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions\/3510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}