Supercomputing Power Made Real

by Jo Twist BBC News, 17 Apr 2005 For computer users and gadget lovers, Moore's Law has been a welcome standard because it has meant technology keeps doing more for the same money or less. For the last four decades, Gordon Moore's prediction that integrated circuits would grow more complex has been the industry's benchmark, driving chip performance. It has meant that every couple of years, chip performance has doubled. But for supercomputers which rely on thousands of processors operating at once, a faster individual chip has not necessarily been a priority. Read the article