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ar7

Tue May 11, 2010 11:45 pm


End of Moore's Law?

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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!  :D


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DemonWasp

Wed May 12, 2010 7:48 am


RE:End of Moore\'s Law?

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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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A.J

Wed May 12, 2010 3:01 pm


RE:End of Moore\'s Law?

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Yea, pretty much what DemonWasp said. Thanks for the link though, I hadn't been informed about this...