Using MST, gate leakage can be reduced by 60-80% while also making the chips run faster. It means Moore’s Law will remain in effect for at least another 15 years, which is long enough for most of those scary predictions of Ray Kurzweil to come true.
Tag: hardware
Ricoh Caplio R7 Review
i really don’t get it why people buy inferior cameras from nikon / canon etc. where else do you get 7x optical zoom in such a small package at this price point?
Energy-Proportional Computing
Energy-proportional designs would enable large energy savings in servers, potentially doubling their efficiency in real-life use. Achieving energy proportionality will require significant improvements in the energy usage profile of every system component, particularly the memory and disk subsystems.
implementing this would save ~100 Terawatt hours of energy. Article by Luiz Barroso / Urs Hoelzle
Dimensions of the One Machine
kk runs the numbers on the global computer
Browsers will be parallel
tomorrow’s pages will make today’s browsers run unacceptably slow (because neither processors nor browsers will become much faster, while page complexity will increase).
how can a single threaded application like web site parsing be made to run efficiently on 10s of cores?
RegEx Content Processor
Tarari’s RegEx-CP-v3 protects your network and enhances overall performance. It breaks through all network bottlenecks with high throughput and fast response time. This next-generation Network Security product keeps gigabit network traffic on the move. Regular expressions are processed simultaneously.
this reminds me of the time i thought the xml coprocessor was a joke. then i met brian del vecchio of datapower systems.
Ever used a Zune?
microsoft can’t even get the spinny wheel right. based on this i predict a completely underwhelming zune “surprise” in Q4.
Memory Architecture
16TB @ 1ns access speed by 3d nanowires. this has the potential to speed up computer architectures across the board: no more pushing data through a straw.
Top 500 performance
1 petaflop in early 2009?
Troubleshooting power adapters
why is it always power issues? my thinkpad is basically dead because it shuts off power after 1min of use, even with a new battery. now the macbook is acting up.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 