If you could hold the power and speed of a supercomputer in your hands, would you? Jack Dongarra, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and the director of the Innovative Computing Laboratory, has discovered that you already can, kind of: Apple’s new iPad 2 would match a four-processor version of the Cray 2 supercomputer, the world’s fastest computer with eight processors in 1985. Using the LINPACK Benchmark, which measures a computer’s mathematical computing power—reported in millions of floating point operations per second (MFLOPS)—in solving a dense system of linear equations, Dongarra and other researchers have also discerned that the new iPad2 is about 10 times as fast as its predecessor, the original iPad.
Access for a Better Life
UT Knoxville’s KLASS Center provides autism evaluations and guidance, plus PASS and FUTURE programs that build independence and college success.
There is Hope
UTHSC’s Lawrence Pfeffer patented IV 129, a drug candidate that may improve glioblastoma treatment by enhancing sensitivity to temozolomide.
Dopesick No More
UT’s SMART Initiative leaders explain how fentanyl drives Tennessee overdoses and why addiction is a brain disease requiring long-term recovery support.
