On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:40 PM, Jon Elson <el...@pico-systems.com> wrote:
> The problem is Gordon Moore's law has finally expired (long live Gordon > Moore!) Notice that CPU speeds (about 3 GHz) > have totally flattened out after 3 decades of continuous increase. Speeds > have not increased > at all in the last 5 years or so. Only some major technical grand slam > that completely breaks the current > transistor architecture will get us past this wall. Some things can be > parallelized, and some > can't, so more cores is not the overall solution. We have gone through > pretty much two full "nodes" > of feature size shrink, but speeds have not gone up, just how many cores > can be put on a chip. > Moore's law is alive, it's just that it didn't promise increased speed---the original formulation was that the number of transistors on a chip doubles every 18 months. This was accomplished by shrinking the on-chip feature size, which allowed increased switching speed and decreased power consumption, and also enabled speedups via complexity: pipelines, superscalar/out-of-order execution, etc, etc. The recent clock speed plateau notwithstanding, the number of transistors keeps increasing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
