[98546] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [ppml] too many variables
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eliot Lear)
Mon Aug 13 08:30:19 2007
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:29:14 +0200
From: Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com>
To: ppml@arin.net, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20070810182455.GA57260@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Leo Bicknell wrote:
> To Bill's original e-mail. Can we count on 2x every 18 months going
> forward? No. But betting on 2x every 24 months, and accounting for the
> delta between currently shipping and currently available hardware seems
> completely reasonable when assessing the real problem.
>
This assumes "the real problem" is CPU performance, where many have
argued that the real problem is memory bandwidth. Memory doesn't track
Moore's Law. Besides, Moore's Law isn't a law. What's your Plan B?
This is where a lot of RRG/RAM work is going on right now.
Eliot
