Basic HTML version of Foils prepared 20 February 00
| Microprocessor performance increases 50% - 100% per year |
| Transistor count doubles every 3 years |
| DRAM size quadruples every 3 years |
| Huge $ investment per generation is carried by commodity PC market |
| 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" |
| Linpack Performance |
| Linear Equation Solver Benchmark |