[Evanescence]

I think flops = floating point operations per sec.

[rohit_anand]

Originally Posted by stingrae

hmm..basic funda>> no. of transistors on chip do not change with different speeds..they change when newer registers/functions or extra cache is added onto the processor...u are right about the no. of transistors...and the distance between the individual transistors is around 0.09micro-m now..thats 90nm!... starting at a diesize of 0.18um it had a diesize of around 217squaremm..smaller than a 1Rp coin.. can go on...shall stop heah.. btw, Moore's law is also gonna slow down now, Intel's finally looking beyond ramping up and releasing high Ghz procs which aren't such a huge jump on performance...a lotta Ghz is not always equal to a lotta performance..

sorry for replyin so late..:P i'm back to PG after a short hiatus...IIM-A intrvw next up on march 12th..havent been prepping up dat much..though tonight is the night for all dat... 8 days to go folks! :eek:

hav a lot to read up various paths that my intrvw might take... this is the one i've been looking forward to though... CAT was one helluva experience, this can only be the icing on the cake.. experience-wise that is...i'm not contemplating converting the call and all dat...'tis a great ride so far... onto A now! n junta, plzz post! or are the A-interviews in the south only starting on 11th march??

Payne

just to add to what sting has alredy said...
the 0.09 micron technology being used now employs a strained silicon technolgy where the silicon lattice is streched for better conduction...for more gyaan check www.intel.com

[stingrae]

Originally Posted by Man of Lamancha

Agreed that Moore's Law would be dying out soon, but than one could perhaps add on about the dual core chips that they are coming out with, or have they already released them?

Pt is I was asked all sort of dumb Qs on Processors in my A interview. they wanted to know whether under similar h/w conditions a faster processor will be better or worse compared to a slower one and similar stuff on RAM, thought I could have tried to take them to these areas back then, but then, they simply didn't crop up in my mind.

anyway, tanks a lot for the areas. btw how do u define flops, I know they are units of speed lllr to hz at the supercomp level, but what?

Nice questions. Evanescence has answered the flops question..cool.. A supercomp is a comp which can work at teraflops range..thats 10^12 flops....meaning a shitload.. the fastest being the BlueGene with some 70-odd teraflops..

coming to the question that under similar h/w condition a faster proc..blah blah. simple fact man, as i said Mhz ain't a measure of performance. it differs depending on a lot of other factors, the lenght of the pipeline, the FSB speeds, the cache, the memory speed, the branch prediction unit of the proc, the overall efficiency of the proc. best examples to be quoted would be Celeron vs Pentium !!!/IV; or Athlon vs Pentium family. lots more on this..but me off to study for now.. as rohit said try out www.intel.com the site is waay informative..heck i presented a paper on HT from the whitepapers on the site, in-depth i'd say... and use google da

abt Dual Core chips; yes, they are going to be released, codenamed Smithfield and badged Pentium D; and Intel's already showing off 65nm technology...! all these going on at the IDF right now..

[eztella]

When do the Ahemdabad GD/Pis end .I mean all of them?

[floydian_25]

can someone tell me what the interview ref no: in the form needs to be? there are 4 blocks(one for each digit) followed by 2005-2007...but the letter shows a 3 digit number and a 5 digit number?....what's to be filled ...please help.

[hanoz]

Originally Posted by floydian_25

can someone tell me what the interview ref no: in the form needs to be? there are 4 blocks(one for each digit) followed by 2005-2007...but the letter shows a 3 digit number and a 5 digit number?....what's to be filled ...please help.

Write your roll number (given at the top right of the form that you have received) preceded by sufficient number of zeros.

Originally Posted by eztella

When do the Ahemdabad GD/Pis end .I mean all of them?

They end at March-end. Results around mid april.

Hanoz

[chiclets]

hi can anyone tell me wht is the code for univ of pune in the cat bulletin ?
i have to fill it in the IIMA form

[dileep]

chiclets,
code is 214 for univ of pune...

[puruc]

:huh: wen r all iima gd/pi endin??& by wat time r results expected...seniors plz throw some light on this....thx

[puruc]

Originally Posted by puruc

:huh: wen r all iima gd/pi endin??& by wat time r results expected...seniors plz throw some light on this....thx

got my ans frm above post..........i dint c earlier...