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Foil 63 General Technology Trends

From Master Foilset for CPS615 Introduction -- Material from Culler and Koelbel Computational Science for Simulations -- Fall Semester 1998. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Nancy McCracken
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 huge commodity market
Note that single-processor performance is plateauing, but that parallelism is a natural way to improve it.
Sequential or small multiprocessors -- today 2 processor PC's

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