On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 02:16:41PM -0800, Steve Dekorte wrote: > Is speed really the bottleneck for making computers more useful?
Many major scientific problems or even gaming are resource-constrained. I personally would have no difficulties keeping astronomical numbers of nodes at 100% CPU for years and decades. Consider what a BlueGene/Q on every desktop would mean. Even if Moore continues to hold, it will be a great long while until it happens. > Personally, I don't find myself waiting on my computer much anymore. > Most of my time is instead spent trying to tell the machine what to do > while it sits there, idling. All the big clusters are booked out. It's the main reason why people are building their own clusters. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
