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Foil 41 General Technology Trends

From Introduction to Computational Science CPS615 Computational Science Class -- Spring Semester 2000. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 Microprocessor performance increases 50% - 100% per year
2 Transistor count doubles every 3 years
3 DRAM size quadruples every 3 years
4 Huge $ investment per generation is carried by commodity PC market
5 Note that "simple" single-processor performance is plateauing, but that parallelism is a natural way to improve it. But many different forms of parallelism "Data or Thread Parallel" or "Automatic Instruction Parallel"
6 Linpack Performance
7 Linear Equation Solver Benchmark

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