They already figured this out in the hitchikers guide to the galaxy.
"Every time I press one of these black controls, labelled in black on a black background, a little black light lights up black to let me know I've done it."
Now that you mentioned SCIAM.
There is an article in the august issue of Scientific American about magnetologic gates. This mentions that instead of making transistors smaller so you can put more of them in the same space. You could also try achieve the same functions using less elements.
magnetologic gates are based on the MRAM technology.
With some modifications the designs for MRAM can be used to create logic gates that are much more efficient and powerfull then CMOS based transistors.
With only 1 magnetologic gate you could create a AND, OR, NOR or NAND function. with 2 gates you can create a XOR function with would require 8 to 14 CMOS transistors. The 'full adder', the most used unit in a processor used to add two binary inputs, can be created with only 3 gates instead of 16 CMOS transistors.
So using magnetologic gates you can achieve the same kind of processing power improvement without using smaller units.
These magnetologic gates have some other advantages. They are non-volatile so they remember/store the result of the last calculation performed and reading out this value does not delete the information. This means that the overall calculation can be performed faster and it also enables parallel or clockless execution of operations.
Magnetologic gates can be reprogrammed like FPGA's. But unlike FPGA's switching between different functionalities takes just billions of a second. This ability to morph (which is the main focus of this article) radically reduces the amount of transistors needed in a processor. Since all function are hardwired in a normal CMOS processor, at any given time only a few percent of the transistors are actually used. If you could change the function of your elements with every operation, you could perform the same scala of different funtions with just a few elements.
If this technology will progress it could bypass the miniaturization efforts.
Mhh. Maybe i should have said 'for instance AJAX'. Since I seemed to have offended you.
I nearly meant that there are ways to create daynamic webpages without using server-generated HTML.
Since AJAX had some publicity lately I though that people would more easily understand what I meant.
But your carefully worked out reasoning is nice to read.
You seem to be very productive when under stress.:-)
"Darl finally admits that SCO doesn't own UNIX!!!"
However, as the stewards of the UNIX operating system, SCO is committed to providing technology leadership and delivering on the promise of UNIX-based solutions for many years to come.
steward: (steward) n One who manages another's property, finances, or other affairs.
You just need to make sure you do not put any items on your webserver you do not want to get viewed.
And if you make invisible links to them. That is just plain stupid.
Also, if Google can find those files so can any other web-crawler.
Also amd gives many hints on optimizing for amd cpus with the intel compiler in there Compiler flags document (PDF) http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white _papers_and_tech_docs/32035.pdf
It mentions that some specific optimization flags work for version 7.1 and 8.0 but not for version 8.1.
It seems that intel improves its amd-specific optimization with every version.:-)
I could not find any other postings on this topic on the amd forum. You would expect people to post these kind of issues on such an obvious place.
Wimp
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil" Donald Knuth
Is it just me or are there other people that where carefully inspecting the last couple of frames of the quicktime movie in a hope to see something 'alien'.
Good thing there wasn't anything there.
We really would have screwed it up bigtime if the last frames contained footage of, for instance, a large intergalactic radio relay station owned by some, not so nice anymore, powerfull alien race.
Slashdot Mirror
They already figured this out in the hitchikers guide to the galaxy. "Every time I press one of these black controls, labelled in black on a black background, a little black light lights up black to let me know I've done it."
Now that you mentioned SCIAM.
There is an article in the august issue of Scientific American about magnetologic gates. This mentions that instead of making transistors smaller so you can put more of them in the same space. You could also try achieve the same functions using less elements.
magnetologic gates are based on the MRAM technology. With some modifications the designs for MRAM can be used to create logic gates that are much more efficient and powerfull then CMOS based transistors.
With only 1 magnetologic gate you could create a AND, OR, NOR or NAND function. with 2 gates you can create a XOR function with would require 8 to 14 CMOS transistors. The 'full adder', the most used unit in a processor used to add two binary inputs, can be created with only 3 gates instead of 16 CMOS transistors.
So using magnetologic gates you can achieve the same kind of processing power improvement without using smaller units.
These magnetologic gates have some other advantages. They are non-volatile so they remember/store the result of the last calculation performed and reading out this value does not delete the information. This means that the overall calculation can be performed faster and it also enables parallel or clockless execution of operations.
Magnetologic gates can be reprogrammed like FPGA's. But unlike FPGA's switching between different functionalities takes just billions of a second. This ability to morph (which is the main focus of this article) radically reduces the amount of transistors needed in a processor. Since all function are hardwired in a normal CMOS processor, at any given time only a few percent of the transistors are actually used. If you could change the function of your elements with every operation, you could perform the same scala of different funtions with just a few elements.
If this technology will progress it could bypass the miniaturization efforts.
I think SCO is now looking through their SVR5 versions to see if they can somehow link this publicly released code to there existing case.
Mhh. Maybe i should have said 'for instance AJAX'. Since I seemed to have offended you.
I nearly meant that there are ways to create daynamic webpages without using server-generated HTML.
Since AJAX had some publicity lately I though that people would more easily understand what I meant.
But your carefully worked out reasoning is nice to read.
You seem to be very productive when under stress.
Wimp_org.
And this is the time to swith!
With AJAX we do not need server generated pages anymore.
Just generate dynamic XML data and let the client do all the work.
Wimp_org
Somebody on Groklaw stated it nicely.
Wimp_org
You just need to make sure you do not put any items on your webserver you do not want to get viewed.
And if you make invisible links to them. That is just plain stupid.
Also, if Google can find those files so can any other web-crawler.
Wimp_org
So it orbits around the sun yelling war cries and throwing a chakram at everything that moves?
Nice for them to place her beyond pluto's orbit then.
Wimp_org
-- I'm going to sue them. This really messed up my horoscope.
According to this posting http://devforums.amd.com/index.php?showtopic=34&h
Also amd gives many hints on optimizing for amd cpus with the intel compiler in there Compiler flags document (PDF)
http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/whit
It mentions that some specific optimization flags work for version 7.1 and 8.0 but not for version 8.1.
It seems that intel improves its amd-specific optimization with every version.
I could not find any other postings on this topic on the amd forum. You would expect people to post these kind of issues on such an obvious place.
Wimp
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil" Donald Knuth
Is it just me or are there other people that where carefully inspecting the last couple of frames of the quicktime movie in a hope to see something 'alien'.
Good thing there wasn't anything there.
We really would have screwed it up bigtime if the last frames contained footage of, for instance, a large intergalactic radio relay station owned by some, not so nice anymore, powerfull alien race.
Wimp