[extropy-chat] 70 teraflops

Dirk Bruere dirk at neopax.com
Fri Dec 3 12:59:28 UTC 2004


Eugen Leitl wrote:

>On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 12:31:54PM +0000, Dirk Bruere wrote:
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>>The two are very closely related.
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>No. There's improvement, but the gap is widening.
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Depends.
In the past reducing scale also meant increasing clock speed.
Now it seems that processors are going parallel (something long overdue 
IMO) and clock speed is not going to increase as rapidly as in the past.
Hence Moore's Law will be very closely linked to computing power.

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Dirk

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