Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 18:39:18 06/09/02
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On June 08, 2002 at 12:53:25, Michael a wrote:
>On June 06, 2002 at 17:38:07, Russell Reagan wrote:
>
>>What I would like to know is if there is a theoretical limit to the speed
>>processors can reach.
>>
>>I'm not sure if this is related or not, but I'll throw this out there also. I
>>recall long ago hearing or reading about how the electrons passing through a
>>wire (or whatever medium) bang into each other and thus cause the travel time
>>from one end of a wire to the other end to take longer, and also causing heat to
>>be generated from the collisions. It went on to talk about how the smaller the
>>wire gets, the fewer the number of collisions, the faster the travel time, and
>>less heat is generated. So is the theoretical limit to processor speed when we
>>are able to create a wire (or whatever medium) that has the width of a single
>>electron, and can thus move freely with no collisions? Sorry if this has nothing
>>to do with my original question.
>>
>>I'm not talking so much about other approaches to computing such as quantum
>>computing. I'm speaking in terms of our current architecture.
>>
>>Russell
>
>I had posted a link to a book on the CIA and NSA at amazon.com about 3 weeks ago
>citing a 17 septillion (can't remember the number) op/sec but no one responded
>to it.
>
>My original question was what would the SSDF rating list look like with that
>type of number.
All the listed programs (best professionals and fresh amateurs) would be at the
same level (it would be impossible to differenciate the programs because their
rating's margin of error would overlap).
We have already started to notice this trend since a while, and as hardware gets
faster I promiss it is going to get worse.
What the rating would be, I don't know.
Christophe
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