OT: Nature on the 'end' of Moore's Law

[Kagamin via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 17 February 2016 at 17:57:11 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
Grøstad wrote:
> On Wednesday, 17 February 2016 at 17:10:37 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 16 February 2016 at 18:28:19 UTC, Laeeth Isharc 
>> wrote:
>>> A pity given data sets keep getting bigger.
>>
>> Can't it be parallelized on server, and client will only 
>> receive presentable data? Then your only concern will be 
>> energy consumption.
>
> Yes, it looks like server/HPC increasingly is becoming a 
> separate CPU market again.
> I read somewhere that next gen high end APU from AMD might have 
> a TDP of 200/300W (pretty hot) and basically integrate a 
> full-blown GPU and use HBM memory (>128GB/s?).

I'm thinking more about distributed platforms. We made our server 
support farm configuration, and the customer was happy to buy 6 
farm nodes and plans to add 3 more. For some reason a farm is 
cheaper than one big iron server?