Moore's law

<p>Jan 12, 2011 02:37 PM

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Note this critical fact about Moore's Law &#160;(from Carl Hewitt talk at CS 380 in Jan 2011)

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Moore's Law for computation now takes the following form:</p>

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<li><b>Clock frequency is no longer increasing exponentially</b>. &#160;(it is only slowly increasing)</li>

<li>Instead, the<b> number of cores is increasing exponentially.</b></li>

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<p>Note: this accords with Bill Dally's prediction &#160;(he REALLY knows: &#160;CTO of Nvidia and head of stfd CSD)

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(I also believe that the shrinking of dimensions will level off within 15 years or so)

see &#160;Mukesh Khare's talk (IBM &#160;New York) on CMOS and successors.

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Future will follow the direction of brains: &#160;1) &#160;redundant 2) fault tolerant 3) massively parallel (inconsistency tolerant)

4) adaptive (depending on task 5) responsive to needs and to task &#160;6) self-diagnosing/ self-repairing.</p>