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.

This is a simple multiplicative factor out front of the processing power curve. The problem is with disciplines whose data sets and corresponding processing needs are growing faster than this, usually along exponentials with larger time constants.


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