Lots of attention for Linpack for Android
Thanks to AndroidPolice, there has been a ten fold increase in Linpack runs and views of this website. I’ve also spotted over 400 news articles and blogs that show pictures and links back to here. Thanks for all the attention.
It’s interesting to see all furor for Android 2.2 showing up now. Regulars to this website are sure to remember the Top 10 postings of FroYo back on March 15th. I’m sure the upcoming Google I/O has generated lots of the interest, but it really came down to the AndroidPolice post showing the image of Linpack running on Android 2.2 powered Nexus One. Checkout AndroidPolice for their full article. I liked their last line, “These mysterious numbers from the Linpack Top 10 don’t look so fake anymore now, do they?”
I also checked on some tracking info that shows how many times Android 2.2 has ran recently:
The first time Android 2.2 shows up was 22 March for only one run, then not again until 15 April. Before that it was showing up as FroYo. Today, the number of runs exploded to 28 sessions. It looks like Android 2.2 will soon be coming to a device near you.
June 7, 2010 - 6:26 AM
Hi
Could you tell me what matrix size your Linpack benchmark app uses please? N=100,1000, something else?
Cheers,
Mike
August 7, 2010 - 6:43 PM
The matrix size is 200×200. I plan to increase this shortly to 500×500 so that I can reduce some of the errors with large MFLOPS runs.