Well first a lot of software we work on now isn’t pushing performance limits. The long poles in these development projects are requirements and domain understan

Well first a lot of software we work on now isn’t pushing performance limits. The long poles in these development projects are requirements and domain understanding. The software that does push technical limits is likely to push IO, storage, and reliability related limits rather than compute. Distributed systems and big data are topics with a lot of interest in the last 15 years! We call them “computers” and algorithms are very important for computation, but many commercial applications these days actually use them in their capacity as telecommunications devices and data storage and retrieval systems, with the actual “computing” part being much less ambitious.