Comments on Next Big Future: Intel forecasts Moore's law to continue until 2029...

Unfortunately, nowhere on the graph is the comput...

2008-04-17T19:52:00.000-07:00

Unfortunately, nowhere on the graph is the computing cost of running the most recent Windows version :(

Well, that's interesting and up to date...thanks!T...

2008-04-08T09:39:00.000-07:00

Well, that's interesting and up to date...thanks!

There is so much more to computers than fancy computer graphics.

Petaflop to Exaflop problem targets are described ...

2008-04-07T22:30:00.000-07:00

Petaflop to Exaflop problem targets are described in this 38 page pdf

http://www.nccs.gov/wp-content/media/nccs_reports/Science%20Case%20_012808%20v3__final.pdf

Many protein and enzyme events of interest to biology and bioenergy
research are in the millisecond-to-second timescales [22, 23], which are orders of magnitude beyond those possible with today’s simulations. Exascale leadership systems will change this landscape, making these simulations routine.

Understand the complexity of
plant cell wall structure and its
relationship to recalcitrance
through large-scale (microbial
and plant cell wall structure and
cellulosome, etc.) simulations of
10 to 100 million atoms over
millisecond timeframes

Combine density functional
theory with evolutionary search
for complex materials or an
accurate combinatorial approach
to screen the best separation
material out of O(103)
compounds

So about how much computing power would one need t...

2008-04-07T18:16:00.000-07:00

So about how much computing power would one need to directly solve the protein folding problem using Schrodinger's equation? Anyone know or have a chart which estimates time vs # atoms/structure?