Challenges - Technology evolution
Challenges - Technology evolution
- CPU
- For offline computing we will need the equivalent of 50,000 of today’s most powerful PCs (2.5x105 SPECint95)
- To have this at affordable cost, price-performance ratio has to continue to improve.
- Networking and world-wide data access
- For world-wide analysis of data and for world-wide collaboration in software development
- Price-performance evolution of networks was slow, but big improvements are hoped for
de-regulation of PTTs, Internet, multi-media
- Object-level data access --> OODBMS
1 SPECint95 = 40 SPECint92 = 10 CERN units = 40 MIPS