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How many iPads would it take to match the world’s fastest supercomputer?
In the world of supercomputers – imagine computers the size of a warehouse – everything is about getting as many flops (floating-point operations per second) as possible. Think of this as how many calculations the computer can perform in a second. Currently the fastest supercomputer in the world, as ranked by the Top500 list , is the K Computer built by Fujitsu in Japan.
Software Does Not Measure up to Hardware
With the recent release of Microsoft’s first quarter results, for the first time in 20 years Apple has higher revenue than Microsoft. Apple is historically a hardware company that has change the landscape of computing across the globe with the iPad, iTouch and iPhone gadgets. Microsoft is a software company that created the most widely-used operating system, Windows.
USA vs. China on the Internet
Arguably, there are currently only two superpowers on the planet: the United States and China. Now that the world is growing increasingly dependent on the Internet, how do these two giants stack up online? We’ve taken a number of Internet-related metrics to compare the two countries, things like the number of Internet users, Internet penetration, the speed of Internet connections, the number of domain names, favorite websites, web browsers, operating systems and more
