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In \u201cPhysics of the Future\u201d<\/a> Michio Kaku states \u201cToday your cell phone has more computer power than all of the NASA back in 1969, when it placed two astronauts on the moon.\u201d and in the fictional movie \u201cIron Sky\u201d<\/a> the space ship \u201cG\u00f6tterd\u00e4mmerung\u201d is operated by a smart phone. So what is<\/em> actually the computational power of modern cell phones? To get an answer to this question I run the linpack<\/a> benchmark on my Jolla<\/a> (with\u00a0Qualcomm Snapdragon dual core cpu at 1.4 GHz). Indeed, according to this benchmark my cell phone has a single-core performance of the order of a Cray supercomputer of the early 1990s, more than 300Mflops, which is about an order of magnitude slower than a modern desktop cpu.<\/p>\n

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The linpack benchmak solves a large dense system of linear equations in order to determine the number of executed floating point operations per second. Screenshot shows results for a Jolla smart phone.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In \u201cPhysics of the Future\u201d Michio Kaku states \u201cToday your cell phone has more computer power than all of the NASA back in 1969, when it placed two astronauts on the moon.\u201d and in the fictional movie \u201cIron Sky\u201d the space ship \u201cG\u00f6tterd\u00e4mmerung\u201d is operated by a smart phone. 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