[PLUG-TALK] Computation capacity versus time

David Fierbaugh david at fierbaugh.net
Thu Apr 16 18:49:53 UTC 2009


If you've got the dataset, you can build your own graph with the Google
Charts API <http://code.google.com/apis/chart/>

Rough idea:
http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=lxy&chs=600x375&chd=t:4,16|8,17&chxt=x,y&chxr=0,1970,2020|1,10,20&chds=0,20&chm=f1e14,0000ff,0,0,10,0|f5e17,0000ff,0,1,10,0&chtt=Mips/year(log%20scale)

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Keith Lofstrom <keithl at kl-ic.com> wrote:

> I am looking for a graphic to add to my server-sky talk - I would
> like a plot of the growth of total world CPU instructions per
> second, versus time in years.
>
> I.E., if in 1980 there were 10 million CPUs running at an average
> of 10MIPS, and in 2000 there were 800 million CPUs running at an
> average of 500 MIPS, then the data points would be 1E14 IPS in
> 1980 and 5E17 IPS in 2000 (those numbers are made-up examples,
> BTW).  There are graphs out there for fastest CPU, and for number
> of PCs sold, but it is multiplying the two is problematic.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Keith
>
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