The iPad 2 is 10 times faster than the original iPad, with 1.5 to 1.65 gigaflops per second. The fastest computer in 2011 was the Tianhe-1A supercomputer in China, handling 2.5 petaflops. The US owns over half of the world’s 500 fastest supercomputers.
The iPad 2 can handle 1.5 to 1.65 gigaflops (billions of mathematical operations measured with the Linpack standard) per second, making it 10 times faster than the original iPad. This also makes it faster than any computer or supercomputer before 1994.
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The fastest computers in the world can handle about 2.5 petaflops or about 2.500 trillion calculations per second. As of 2011, the fastest computer in the world was the Tianhe-1A supercomputer, located in China.
An estimated 500,000 iPad 2s were sold per day in the early days of its release, 70% of which were sold to new buyers.
The United States owns more than half of the world’s 500 fastest supercomputers. By comparison, the country with the next largest share of supercomputers is the UK, which owns around 7%; then France, which owns about 5 percent.
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