8,464
edits
Restless Souls/Technology: Difference between revisions
m
typos
m (changing link from http->https) |
Paradox-01 (talk | contribs) m (typos) |
||
| Line 1,769: | Line 1,769: | ||
But progress on the hardware level is only one side of the coin. You also need software to utilize it. A Russian team demonstrated that [https://phys.org/news/2016-06-scientists-pc-complex-problems-tens.html some scenarios requiring supercomputing can actually by handled on a desk PC] after installing a new graphics card [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1508.07441.pdf (GTX-670, CUDA supported) and self-written software.] | But progress on the hardware level is only one side of the coin. You also need software to utilize it. A Russian team demonstrated that [https://phys.org/news/2016-06-scientists-pc-complex-problems-tens.html some scenarios requiring supercomputing can actually by handled on a desk PC] after installing a new graphics card [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1508.07441.pdf (GTX-670, CUDA supported) and self-written software.] | ||
Still many PC programs can't draw advantage from multi-cores processors and will not. That is because not every program need multiple cores, like text editors. However the trend is here to stay: more cores. (See Intel's Core X and AMD's Threadripper.) Or more exactly: parallelism. It's the new hype. Together with machine learning and AI which started to regain traction again after its past [wp:AI_winter|winters]]. | Still many PC programs can't draw advantage from multi-cores processors and will not. That is because not every program need multiple cores, like text editors. However the trend is here to stay: more cores. (See Intel's Core X and AMD's Threadripper.) Or more exactly: parallelism. It's the new hype. Together with machine learning and AI which started to regain traction again after its past [[wp:AI_winter|winters]]. | ||
After these tricks (stacking, multi-core architecture, parallelism) has been fully exploited, the companies will be forced to abandon energy hungry [wp:Speculative_execution|speculative code execution] and turn to new technologies such as optical computing, memristors, and spintronics. | After these tricks (stacking, multi-core architecture, parallelism) has been fully exploited, the companies will be forced to abandon energy hungry [[wp:Speculative_execution|speculative code execution]] and turn to new technologies such as optical computing, memristors, and spintronics. | ||
Harnessing the magnetic property of electrons will not only result in less power consumption but also high clock rates. In the past years the clock speed stagnated between 4 and 5 GHz due to overheating. Processors based on spintronics won't heat up that fast, so they can operate at higher frequencies. And higher frequencies means more calculations per second. | Harnessing the magnetic property of electrons will not only result in less power consumption but also high clock rates. In the past years the clock speed stagnated between 4 and 5 GHz due to overheating. Processors based on spintronics won't heat up that fast, so they can operate at higher frequencies. And higher frequencies means more calculations per second. | ||
| Line 1,800: | Line 1,800: | ||
The ultimate computing hardware will incorporate bio and nanotechnologies to make themselves shapeshifting hardware to adapt to the problems you give them. | The ultimate computing hardware will incorporate bio and nanotechnologies to make themselves shapeshifting hardware to adapt to the problems you give them. | ||
===Consequences=== | ===Consequences=== | ||