[ExI] gimps

[Stefano Vaj]

On 22 June 2012 17:55, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:

> The clocks effectively stopped doubling in 2003, and it's been not so
> good in general http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm
>

Yup. And even though parallelism has kept us going sofar, one wonders.

Additionally, one wonders about sociology.

I am known to be especially fond of the folding at home distributed computing
project (the team I established, TranshumanistFoldingTeam, no. 157440,
floats around the 1200-1300th place out of 200.000+ theoretical groups).

Now, the usually triumphant stats have increasing troubles in hiding that
a) the number of people and machines involved are not increasing, rather
the opposite b) much of the increase in GFLOPS are owed to GPU-based
clients that are super-efficient in the performance of only rather
specialised calculations.

But, hey, Facebook traffic is fine and dandy. That's the "progress", honey.

-- 
Stefano Vaj
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