{"id":37,"date":"2021-07-12T17:26:07","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T17:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/hpc\/?p=37"},"modified":"2021-07-23T13:29:10","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T13:29:10","slug":"is-the-moores-law-failing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/hpc\/2021\/07\/12\/is-the-moores-law-failing\/","title":{"rendered":"Future of HPC: Is the Moore&#8217;s Law failing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Moore\u2019s Law states that the number of transistors in a processor doubles about every two years. Gordon Moore (a former CEO of Intel) made this observation (and it was also a prediction) in 1975. \u00a0Did his prediction hold true because of his position as the \u00a0CEO of Intel and the chip manufacturers tried to follow his prediction over the years? Maybe. \u00a0 \u00a0More than a decade ago, the Moore&#8217;s Law has been reinterpreted as the number of cores doubling every two years and seemed to be working fine. But the current trends indicate that it might be failing [1]. This, however, brings \u00a0opportunities [1], not the end of High Performance Computing (HPC). In the meantime, IBM has just announced [2] that they managed to go down to as small as 2nm chips. We will see if the Moore\u2019s Law will catch up or continue to fail but either way there is still plenty of room at the top.<\/p>\n[1] <a href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/368\/6495\/eaam9744\">Leiserson, C. E., Thompson, N. C., Emer, J. S., Kuszmaul, B. C., Lampson, B. W., Sanchez, D., &amp; Schardl, T. B. (2020). There\u2019s plenty of room at the Top: What will drive computer performance after Moore\u2019s law? Science, 368(6495)<\/a><\/p>\n[2] <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.ibm.com\/2021-05-06-IBM-Unveils-Worlds-First-2-Nanometer-Chip-Technology,-Opening-a-New-Frontier-for-Semiconductors\">https:\/\/newsroom.ibm.com\/2021-05-06-IBM-Unveils-Worlds-First-2-Nanometer-Chip-Technology,-Opening-a-New-Frontier-for-Semiconductors<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Moore\u2019s Law states that the number of transistors in a processor doubles about every two years. Gordon Moore (a former CEO of Intel) made this observation (and it was also a prediction) in 1975. \u00a0Did his prediction hold true because of his position as the \u00a0CEO of Intel and the chip manufacturers tried to&hellip;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4227,"featured_media":33,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/hpc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/hpc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/hpc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/hpc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/hpc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/hpc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/hpc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/hpc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/hpc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/hpc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}