Basic HTML version of Foils prepared 20 February 00
| 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 |