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Foil 68 General Technology Trends

From CPS615-Introduction-Course,Driving Technology and HPCC Current Status and Futures CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- Fall Semester 98. by Geoffrey C. Fox, (Some Culler, Koelbel material)
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 huge commodity market
5 Note that single-processor performance is plateauing, but that parallelism is a natural way to improve it.
6 Sequential or small multiprocessors -- today 2 processor PC's
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