The fundamental graph of technology The graph’s horizontal axis is linear in years, while its vertical axis is exponential. That is, each annotation represents a factor of 100 in improvement. If the bottom of the axis represented a single grain of sand, the top of the axis would be the number of grains of sand […]
Parallel Computing
Parallel Computing Expert Witness: What Parallel Computing Is and How It Is Used
What is Parallel Computing? Parallel computing is a simple concept: it is using more than one processor (or CPU) to complete a data processing task. A couple of decades ago, parallel computing was an arcane branch of computer science. Now, it is everywhere—in cell phones, web sites, laptops and even wearables. This radical shift was […]