The HPC Brick Wall: Power and cooling in a Moore's Law world

摘要

The eventual breakdown of moore's law, global warming and taxes seems to elicit much the same response: "painful but inevitable." Future technologies promise solutions to keep life and progress as we know it continually unchanged. New materials, manufacturing processes, more cores per chip, nanotechnology, quantum computing and optical computing are all lauded with promising new breakthroughs to sustain or exceed the performance increases projected by Moore's Law. Similarly, carbon sequestration, more efficient cars, hydrogen and solar power all promise solutions to human-induced climate change. Sadly, tax technology appears to be the exception, with no promising breakthroughs in the offing, except perhaps greater efficiency in filing and auditing.