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From page 1... ... and dramatically increasing year over year, based on a combination of architectural techniques, semiconductor Sequential Past, Parallel Future advances, and software improvements. Users, developers, and innovators were able to depend on those For multiple decades, single-processor performance increases, translating that performance into numerous has increased exponentially, driven by higher clock rates, technological innovations and creating successive reductions in transistor size, faster switching via generations of ever more rich and diverse products, fabrication improvements, and architectural and software software services, and applications that had profound innovations that increased performance while preserving effects across all sectors of society.1 However, we can no software compatibility with previous-generation longer depend on those extraordinary advances in single- processors. Read the entire page →
From page 2... ... However, unlike in the sequential case, The causes for the declining rates of chip hardware there is no universally accepted, compelling performance improvements begin with the limit on chip programming paradigm for parallel computing. Absent power consumption, which is proportional to the product such programming models and tools, creating of the chip clock frequency and the square of the chip increasingly sophisticated applications that fully and operating voltage. Read the entire page →
From page 3... ... Any shift in the global commercial center Taiwan rely much more on the government to define the of gravity could lead to a shift in the global R&D center strategic objectives and key parameters. For example, of gravity as international firms are required to locate in recent Chinese innovation policies have played an these markets if they are to remain competitive and to increasing role in strengthening its indigenous meet the requirements of government regulations in the innovation capabilities. Read the entire page →

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... and dramatically increasing year over year, based on a combination of architectural techniques, semiconductor Sequential Past, Parallel Future advances, and software improvements. Users, developers, and innovators were able to depend on those For multiple decades, single-processor performance increases, translating that performance into numerous has increased exponentially, driven by higher clock rates, technological innovations and creating successive reductions in transistor size, faster switching via generations of ever more rich and diverse products, fabrication improvements, and architectural and software software services, and applications that had profound innovations that increased performance while preserving effects across all sectors of society.1 However, we can no software compatibility with previous-generation longer depend on those extraordinary advances in single- processors.

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... However, unlike in the sequential case, The causes for the declining rates of chip hardware there is no universally accepted, compelling performance improvements begin with the limit on chip programming paradigm for parallel computing. Absent power consumption, which is proportional to the product such programming models and tools, creating of the chip clock frequency and the square of the chip increasingly sophisticated applications that fully and operating voltage.

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... Any shift in the global commercial center Taiwan rely much more on the government to define the of gravity could lead to a shift in the global R&D center strategic objectives and key parameters. For example, of gravity as international firms are required to locate in recent Chinese innovation policies have played an these markets if they are to remain competitive and to increasing role in strengthening its indigenous meet the requirements of government regulations in the innovation capabilities.

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