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Foil 32 III. Key drivers: Technological Limitations

From Variety of Foils Used Starting January 97 General -- 1997. by Geoffrey C. Fox *
1 Semiconductor component technology
  • feature size, other issues will finally put us in a regime in which Moore's law no longer holds
2 Architecture
  • levels of parallelism must be used
  • memory hierarchy due to increased processor speeds
3 System software
  • latency management
  • efficient handling of
    • millions of concurrent threads
    • thousands of I/O devices
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