Hi,
I've been hearing talk about Moore's Law coming to a halt (or slowing down significantly) .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oLsMs5_19Y
What do you guys think this means for the Computer Scientists (or Software Engineers)?
Thanks!
Computer Science Canada End of Moore's Law? |
| Author: | ar7 [ Tue May 11, 2010 11:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | End of Moore's Law? |
Hi, I've been hearing talk about Moore's Law coming to a halt (or slowing down significantly) . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oLsMs5_19Y What do you guys think this means for the Computer Scientists (or Software Engineers)? Thanks! |
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| Author: | DemonWasp [ Wed May 12, 2010 7:48 am ] |
| Post subject: | RE:End of Moore\'s Law? |
It means that concurrent and parallel programming (a rather difficult subject) will become rather more important over the years. We already have consumer-grade CPUs with 6 cores; by 2020 I would expect at least 128 cores in consumer-grade hardware. Many server CPUs are already at this point of course, which is why common server frameworks (Apache, Tomcat, etc) are already massively multithreaded. It means: learn how to write correct parallel programs. |
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| Author: | A.J [ Wed May 12, 2010 3:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:End of Moore\'s Law? |
Yea, pretty much what DemonWasp said. Thanks for the link though, I hadn't been informed about this... |
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