begin quoting Andrew Lentvorski as of Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 03:02:01PM -0800: > >-"Bandwidth increases faster than CPU power" > > What have you been smoking? And where can I get some?
Oh, it was someone-or-another's law brought up in comparison to Moore's law. It claimed that bandwidth doubled ever 12 months. If I can find the source again, I'll post it. > I have seen no evidence that bandwidth is going up faster than CPU > power. In fact, that's the *problem*. I suspect that Tracy's right -- this is probably only seen in the lab and not at the level of consumers. There was just a report recently about some insane level of bandwidth achieved over optical fiber recently, wasn't there? > If bandwidth would finally increase, people would actually *need* a > faster computer. Bandwidth is a embarassingly parallelizable resource. -Stewart "Byte-per-Dollar perhaps isn't so good" Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
