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CPU development seems to be petering out compared to the gains of yesteryear This is arguably true if your primary metric is single-threaded performance on bra
by orangecat 14y ago
CPU development seems to be petering out compared to the gains of yesteryear
This is arguably true if your primary metric is single-threaded performance on branchy-integer-type code. Admittedly this is what normal users see most of the time, which is why consumer desktops and laptops haven't been very exciting the last few years. But the cost to build a petaflop supercomputer keeps dropping.
- freshhawk 14y agoSure, but the cost to solve a petaflop problem is not. We hit a point where the bottleneck is no longer flops but being able to organize systems that can use them effectively. Doesn't matter how fast you think we will overcome this problem, it illustrates to many people that the intersection between the world that is not increasing exponentially and chip speeds starts to matter a great deal when you want to actually solve a problem by moving floating point numbers about.