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The Effects of Moore's Law and Slacking on Large Computations — mentioned by bborud

Sat, 31 Jan 2026 14:35:51 GMT

This kind of reminds me of an old paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9912202 Of course, we are no longer in the clock speed doubling era, but computer does get faster still.

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The Effects of Moore's Law and Slacking on Large Computations — mentioned by queuebert

Thu, 02 Jan 2025 19:51:01 GMT

Reminds me of this famous paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9912202

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The Effects of Moore's Law and Slacking on Large Computations — HN submission

Thu, 30 May 2024 12:59:19 GMT

The Effects of Moore's Law and Slacking on Large Computations (1999)

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The Effects of Moore's Law and Slacking on Large Computations — mentioned by plegresl

Wed, 25 Oct 2023 01:45:05 GMT

Reminds me of the classic paper "The Effects of Moore's Law and Slacking on Large Computations": https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9912202

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The Effects of Moore's Law and Slacking on Large Computations — mentioned by nullc

Tue, 19 Apr 2022 01:50:03 GMT

If nothing else, they'd enjoy slacking gain[1] by starting their computation with more advanced hardware. [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/9912202.pdf

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The Effects of Moore's Law and Slacking on Large Computations — mentioned by derf_

Tue, 05 Nov 2019 07:30:33 GMT

But then you've spent more money. You could have just bought more hardware in the future. For a fixed budget, assuming that Moore's Law still holds (dubious, these days), you should wait until the computation will take 26 months on hardware purchased within that budget [0]. [0] https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9912202

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The Effects of Moore's Law and Slacking on Large Computations — HN submission

Fri, 10 Apr 2015 13:50:58 GMT

The Effects of Moore’s Law and Slacking on Large Computations [1999] [pdf]

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The Effects of Moore's Law and Slacking on Large Computations — mentioned by kbob

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 06:38:09 GMT

Here's a physics paper that analyzes that question. It's a joke paper, but the conclusion is valid (subject to various simplifying assumptions). Their conclusion is that if a computation takes over 30 months to complete, you're better off waiting for faster hardware. http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9912202 The Effects of Moore's Law and Slacking on Large Computations Authors: C Gottbrath, J Bailin, C Meakin, T Thompson, J.J. Charfman We show that, in the context of Moore's Law, overall productivity can be increased for large enough computations by `slacking' or waiting for some period of time…

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The Effects of Moore's Law and Slacking on Large Computations — HN submission

Thu, 29 May 2008 07:02:58 GMT

The Effects of Moore's Law and Slacking on Large Computations

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