Devices are not getting faster but they are getting fatter. To the point that a lot of [engineering] cycles are spent trying to figure out the best times to turn parts of the chip off.
Hillis may be right to claim Amdahl’s Law was wrong because it assumed the solution algorithms would remain unchanged for the bigger hardware, but the physics of heat are real and a problem. Moving electrons will always be a challenge. But a hundred years from now engineers may look at gating electrons like we would to gating steam pipes as practiced a hundred years back.
Devices are not getting faster but they are getting fatter. To the point that a lot of [engineering] cycles are spent trying to figure out the best times to turn parts of the chip off.
Hillis may be right to claim Amdahl’s Law was wrong because it assumed the solution algorithms would remain unchanged for the bigger hardware, but the physics of heat are real and a problem. Moving electrons will always be a challenge. But a hundred years from now engineers may look at gating electrons like we would to gating steam pipes as practiced a hundred years back.