Apple Delivers World's Largest A.I. Supercomputer -

They just don't quite know it yet!

Just when Elon Musk announces he is building the world’s largest supercomputer - solving mankind’s most vexing problems, Apple delivers a supercomputer literally THOUSANDS of times more powerful, requires no water to cool (Elon’s Colossus needs lakes) and runs on batteries - (Elon’s uses more power than a big chunk of Memphis).

Apple's CEO, Tim Cook said in the Jan 30, 2025 earnings call: There are more than 2.35 billion active iPhones, iPads, Macs, and other Apple devices worldwide.

What Apple did not mention, so we can fill in the blanks, is every Apple device on the planet, can run - today - a Fractal - or many Fractals, and can form, instantly an A.I. super compute mesh far more powerful than Elon Musk's supercomputer.

This is not something we think - the Fractal team is demonstrating it today - that Apple devices can form a distributed computing mesh that when harnessed - can be applied to the most onerous, large A.I. or other models.

Now don’t get us wrong, and don’t send us nasty emails, we aren’t going to unilaterally put a Fractal on your iPhone, tablet or Mac.

However, we are working with some corporations who have large installed bases of iDevices and when they learned these can be harnessed - in their constrained environment - under corporate control - and it gives them more compute power than Elon Musk, well, we did get some interesting conversations started.

Let us take you into some computer history here.

HP, IBM, Dell and a host of other firms own the data center. They have the servers, the network equipment and all that hardware.

Data centers rule the world - or at least they did until true distributed computing arrived - and Fractal is a leader.

Apple ceded the data center to HP, Dell and IBM - choosing, or being forced to choose, NOT to have rack-mounted Apple products doing the heavy lifting. Apple chose a different path - distributed, wearable, phones, - Apple is just everywhere.

This post is being written on an Apple Mac, with an Apple Watch and several iPads nearby.

While Apple went all in on distributed - the Big Iron guys went all in on data centers. So did Elon.

The problem is data centers are obsolete - we prove it every day and we are deep in some soon-to-be published proofs of concept where we will publish the results of entire data center applications being moved to collections of 4 - inch by 4 - inch computers using about the power of a table lamp.

No, wait, we have been demonstrating the Federal Election Commission System and a bunch of state voter roll systems - which need an entire data center - but we moved them to little Fractals, and they run on those little 4 inchers.

You can read about those demo projects at TheFractalGovernment.com.

We also run these Fractals on iPhones, tablets, Macs.

In fact, here’s a fun little demo - showing the power of Apple.

There is a customer billing system.

It runs in a major U.S. corporation you probably know - and it needs an entire data center, with huge Oracle Clusters - costing tens of millions of dollars - to run.

That billing system needs over 92 hours of that data center - all its horses and all its men - to calculate those bills. The billing system alone consumes thousands of dollars in energy.

The same billing system, ran on an iPhone - not a new shiny one, a crappy, old, beat up 5 year old one - and it ran in less than 15 minutes.

No water cooling. No five-figure energy bill. No data center!

Let’s summarize for those of you scanning on your phones.

We took a large, intensive compute application for a major corporation taking days to run - in a data center - and ran it on an iPhone in minutes.

And that was only 1 iPhone.

Today, for some customer demos, we are taking many Apple devices and running these kinds of applications on ALL of them simultaneously - the results are spectacular.

Do not get me wrong.

If you are a qualified prospect and you want to have us show you how we do this on every Apple device in your company - give us a call - we are ready to show you how you now have an A.I. data center in your company - or agency - without needing to build (and pay for!) something that looks like Elon’s Colossus.

Several of you called after the last post - and we are most pleased to work with you.

C’mon, if you have a qualified problem, give us a ring and let’s implement a Proof of Concept today - and let you play with it.

The main question is how do we do it?

For decades, techies knew if they could run applications in true parallel - fully distributed - everything ran as fast as the number of nodes. 10 nodes = 10 times as fast.

The problem with distributed computing is central points of control.

There is always a failure point, an orchestra leader - and the latency and complexity brought into the system made them clumsy.

Fractal built a tech stack - a highly optimized one where every Fractal has 100% of the application functionality, and 1/X the data. X = the number of Fractals.

So, if there are 1,000 Fractals, each has 1/1,000th of the data - and the full compute stack.

This translates into blinding speed.

This also translates into security and survivability - because if you take down 999 Fractals out of 1,000, then the sole survivor regenerates the rest of the team and starts them back up.

Kind of like the Terminator movies with the liquid metal guy. Except Fractal can really do it.

What does this mean for Apple?

Apple ceded the data center but became the computer on your wrist, in your pocket, in your hand, in your briefcase, on your desktop.

Apple is now “compute everywhere.”

A.I. came along and required huge compute resources.

Data centers seemed like the answer - but as Elon found out in Memphis - there is not enough electric power, or water, to handle his A.I. systems and still supply the city.

Fractals can run anywhere - all they need is a processor, some memory, and an IP address and those compute resources are added to the mesh.

So when Elon tells you he has the world’s largest supercomputer with tens of thousands of CPUs and GPUs, that he can focus on an A.I. problem - Apple has billions – installed today – ready to go!.

Every corporation has hundreds, to thousands, to tens of thousands - and they are already paid for and already deployed - no power station or water cooling needed - ready to go.

So Apple’s existing install base in any company is not only a supercomputer - it’s a SUSTAINABLE one, not stealing people’s water and destroying rural farmland for digital smokestacks.

So do not harass Tim Cook, but Apple is now the single largest computing platform on the planet and the Fractal guys are demonstrating this every day to select early adopter customers.

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