Oracle President predicts end of Moore's Law
September 8, 2005
In this article we see Oracle Corporation
President Charles Phillips predict the end of Moore’s Law:
http://searchoracle.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid41_gci1114656,00.html?track=NL-94&ad=525054
"Moore's Law is
coming to an end … we are not seeing the same price performance
improvement we have seen in the past," Phillips said.
The 18-month rule
where chip performance would double and prices would drop no longer
applies as strictly as it once did, Phillips continued.
Moore’s Law states that computer processors
will continually fall while speed improves, but
some note that Moore’s law only applies to CPU, not disk and
RAM. Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel corporation,
has published details on his law for the period up to 2005:
The article concludes:
However, King noted
that the company's MegaGrid project (announced last December in
conjunction with Dell and others) seemed to be closer to a
conventional cluster than an actual grid.
"It's probably a
matter of perspective, but I think the folks supporting and/or
extending tools and apps developed via grid standards have the upper
hand here," King said. "IBM's Grid and Grow [offering] leverages the
company's BladeCenter solutions, offers Xeon, Opteron and Power
servers, and supports Red Hat/SuSE Linux, Windows and AIX.
There is a debate in the Oracle community about
whether the future is with networked grid servers or with large
monolithic servers. Proponents of the mainframe approach say
that performance might be faster when
processors can be shared
within the same server, facilitating faster parallel processing.
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