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Strategies & Market Trends : Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis
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To: shades who wrote (52650)6/21/2006 2:22:21 PM
From: benwood  Read Replies (1) of 116555
 
On the other hand, my own work in the past 25 years has *always* been in need of additional power, where 10x or 100x would be very handy indeed. The target machines of my project's software "gets by" on dual core 3.7 GHz processors with 4 GB of RAM, and our customer really would like something 5x to 10x faster right now. Their "needs" continue to escalate beyond the available technology, both in storage, network, and PC capability.

The NSA I'm sure can use a cluster of 500 GHz computers -- perhaps they *only* monitor phone call databases now, but actually doing intelligent parsing of all language in all phone calls in on the horizon, and in time, every word you ever speak into a phone will be recorded in that database.

And then they'll have clusters of computers processing that database for whatever reason they dream up.

My PC strains a bit under the weight of 6.1 MP RAW image files. In 10 years, I'm sure the norm will be 20 Megapixels. The processing req. will be at least 4-8x to easily manipulate those images. 10 MP is common now for 35mm, and in another 5 years, 4.5x6.0cm equivalent 30 MP cameras will be common.

I saw some spectacular 8x10 view camera prints last week in S.F. -- those film images would be on the order of 250-400 megapixels. That level of digitization should be here in perhaps 15 years, maybe sooner. And that should be about when I'm running a 200 GHz desktop computer with 32 GBytes of RAM (perhaps via 4 or 8 core processor). And I'll still be looking online for how I could upgrade my machine <g>
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