At 04:03 PM 3/13/2007, Greg Lindahl wrote:
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 05:58:53PM -0400, Joe Landman wrote:
> If your need for speed increases faster than Moore's law will give you
> performance for,
... clusters have been getting bigger, and thus for many apps,
sustained performance has been growing faster than Moore's Law for
quite some time.
very true...
And it seems that the real limit on system speed these days isn't
necessarily CPU speed, but interconnect (can't beat the speed of
light) and thermal limits (gotta get the heat out).
-- greg
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