Posts Tagged ‘costseq3’

Economics of Information: Is Koomey’s Law eclipsing Moore’s law?

March 4, 2024

http://www.economicsofinformation.com/2011/09/is-koomeys-law-eclipsing-moores-law.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koomey%27s_law

World’s fastest supercomputers are helping to sharpen climate forecasts and design new materials | Science | A AAS

December 15, 2023

https://www.science.org/content/article/world-s-fastest-supercomputers-are-helping-sharpen-climate-forecasts-and-design-new

A.I. Could Soon Need as Much Electricity as an Entire Country – The New York Times

October 18, 2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/10/climate/ai-could-soon-need-as-much-electricity-as-an-entire-country.html

Can computing clean up its act?

September 4, 2023

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/08/16/can-computing-clean-up-its-act

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For several decades one happy side-effect of Moore’s Law was that, as circuitry shrank, it also became more frugal. That effect is known as Dennard scaling, after Robert Dennard, a scientist then working at ibm who wrote a paper on the subject in 1974. During the mid-2000s, though, the tricky physics of ultra-tiny components meant that relationship began to break down. Computers are still becoming more efficient as their components shrink, but the rate at which they are doing so has slowed sharply.
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Is Moore’s Law Really Dead? | WIRED

August 12, 2023

https://www.wired.com/story/moores-law-really-dead/

Alex Telford on Twitter: “Some discouraging stats from a new analysis of big pharma R&D productivity: “On av erage, a big pharma company spent $4.4 billion annually in R&D and launched 0.78 new drugs. The peer group’s R&amp ;D efficiency (2001–2020) is $6.16 billion (total R&D spending per new drug)” https://t.co/QL0xEArTtP” / X

August 1, 2023

https://twitter.com/Atelfo/status/1686130948591538176

Use ancient remains more wisely

January 25, 2020

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02516-5
A cost of sequencing!