Context: Moore’s Law and Friends
$100/M
4 M
10 x
360
Display
pixels
$1000/MB/s/mo
4 GB/s
1,000 x
12
WAN BW
$1/MB/s
1 GB/s
100 x
18
LAN BW
$0.35/GB
750 GB
1,000 x
12
Storage (disk)
$20/GIPS
2x4 GIPS
100 x
18
Processing
6/2006 cost
6/2006
best
10 years
months for 2 x
Implication:
spend hardware to simplify software.
Huge
components work (operating system, database, browser)
Better hardware enables new applications.
Complexity goes into software.