International Perspectives: From Via Maris to Electronic Highway: the Internet in Canaan
ISPs, governments, and telecos work to link the old world to the new in a volatile region.
Phillip Ein-Dor
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Attributes of the performance of central processing units: a relative performance prediction model
Using readily available data on CPU characteristics—main memory size, cache memory size, number of channels, and machine cycle time—it is possible to predict relative CPU performance for a wide range of machines. Statistical analyses indicate that these characteristics explain virtually all the variance in relative performance.
Grosch’s law re-revisited: CPU power and the cost of computation
Does Grosch's law, which postulated that the costs of computer systems increase at a rate equivalent to the square root of their power, still hold? The age of mini-, micro-, and supercomputers seems to have complicated the situation. When computers are grouped according to their size and power, Grosch's law seems to hold within each group, but not between different groups.
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