III. Key drivers: Technological Limitations

III. Key drivers: Technological Limitations

• Semiconductor component technology
  • feature size, other issues will finally put us in a regime in which Moore's law no longer holds
• Architecture
  • levels of parallelism must be used
  • memory hierarchy due to increased processor speeds
• System software
  • latency management
  • efficient handling of
    • millions of concurrent threads
    • thousands of I/O devices

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