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I would like to have one, or at least a 3-D desktop display. One without 50 Amazon apps trying to constantly sell me things would be preferred. Aren't modern
by dm2 12y ago
I would like to have one, or at least a 3-D desktop display.
One without 50 Amazon apps trying to constantly sell me things would be preferred.
Aren't modern smartphones far more powerful than a Cray 2?
- sp332 12y agoIn raw processing power, yes. Cray 2 had 1.9 Gflops, modern Snapdragon CPUs have 12! And the visualization capabilities are far beyond that, with Tegra 4 GPUs at something like 75 Gflops.
- agumonkey 12y agoMillions and Cray2x10 running right now doing nothing. Sad.
- dm2 12y agoWhy is it sad? It would render mobile devices useless to run distributed computing on them because the battery would last very little time. Excess capacity is a good thing, especially when it's cheap and available to everyone. Just for comparison, a single Titan Z GPU can preform at 8 TeraFlops, 4000 times that of a Cray 2.
- agumonkey 12y agoI know, I was overly ranty (especially considering the battery factor). Still I'm amazed on how much computing capacity people have and is still perceived as 'not enough'.
- ctdonath 12y agoI'd like one too. Everyone thinks they one one. Until they see one, then don't. Compare the Amazon Fire Phone. It's got that "3D-ish" display, which is about as close to having a 3D display as you can get without quite going there - and it was received with a resounding "meh."