Electronista reports:

Apple’s iPad 2 is as fast as a Cray 2 supercomputer from a quarter-century ago, Top 500 and Linpack co-manager Dr. Jack Dongarra said late Monday. At 1.5 to 1.65 gigaflops of computing power, Apple’s tablet would compete with the eight-processor, 1985-era system despite being just a sliver of the size.

The real disadvantage of the Cray, though, is that there’s no shipping version of Angry Birds. Still, given Rovio’s increasingly fevered attempts to milk that series until it screams, it’s probably only a matter of time.

(Before the Cray version, Rovio should release C64 Angry Birds!)