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· Föderation EN So 16.03.2025 20:06:25 @mrundkvist If you want a computer comparable to your cell phone, it's what in the movie Hackers was described as "Supercomputers, like you use to do physics or look for oil". (source: Hackers is from sept 1995, most recent supercomputer list then was from https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/list/1995/06/ which lists the best one as doing ~200GFlop/s - which is about half of the current top mobile phone CPU. Alternatively take an Adreno 610 mobile gpu, which runs about 300GFLOP/s - which you'd get in an Oppo A53 from 5 years ago for about $200) |
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Föderation EN So 16.03.2025 20:16:55 @dascandy Tech development has long since passed the stage of sufficient computing power for me to run my basic desktop applications under linux. It's been decades since I was interested in better performance in a laptop. It's like once engineers perfected cars that did 150 kmph, almost nobody was interested in faster ones anymore. |
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Föderation EN So 16.03.2025 21:33:52 @dascandy @mrundkvist I'd love to see a plot of the lag (years) between performance of supercomputer/HPC systems (say top and bottom of top500) and the performance of a mobile phone. Is it opening or shrinking? |
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Föderation EN So 16.03.2025 21:37:04 The main reason that I buy new phones isn't that I need more power: it's that Samsung pushes new bloated Android versions to it that I don't want because they make the phone slow without offering any useful new features. |
