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iPad 2 would have bested 1990s-era supercomputers

by Michael Grothaus (May 9th, 2011)

If you want to know which supercomputer is the fastest in the world, you check the Top 500 list. The keeper of that list is Dr. Jack Dongarra, who teaches at the University of Tennessee. Dongarra is one of the authors of the Linpack computing benchmark, introduced way back in 1979. With this ...

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