Ok, my mistake. I guess 135K (about -138°C) is not exactly in the achievable range for a regular computer. :-)
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 17:23, Jan Goyvaerts <[email protected]> wrote: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-temperature_superconductivity > > > On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 17:17, Jan Goyvaerts <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Didn't they discover a superconductor recently that 'super-conducts' at a >> quite achievable temperature ? >> >> >> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 16:04, Joshua Marinacci <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Unlikely. The single core speed problem is due to fundamental limits of >>> physics. The only way we will make single cores significantly faster is >>> through major silicon process improvements (perhaps using new materials), >>> major cooling improvements (very unlikely), or by making programming models >>> more tolerant of physical errors (which would be very interesting). >>> >>> - josh >>> >>> On Nov 25, 2009, at 5:01 AM, Mikael Grev wrote: >>> >>> > >>> >> 1. a single CPU core is not going to become any faster. That's right; >>> >> a single thread is never going to run any faster in the future. We've >>> >> reached the end of the line as far as clock speed and on-chip >>> >> parallelization is concerned. >>> > >>> > Bill Gates said that 640k was more than anyone would ever need. >>> > >>> > Something tells me that some innovative person will find a way to >>> > circumvent the problem. >>> > >>> > :) >>> > >>> > Cheers, >>> > Mikael >>> > >>> > -- >>> > >>> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "The Java Posse" group. >>> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> >>> . >>> > For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. >>> > >>> > >>> >>> -- >>> >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "The Java Posse" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> >>> . >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. >>> >>> >>> >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
