Software lets hardware down

Writing in Information Week, Catherine Crawford says that while Moore's Law has not reached its limits in terms of hardware, usable performance by most software has hit its ceiling.

She said that with so much computing power so readily accessible, everyone should be able to tap this power to solve more problems than ever before. However there is not the software to take advantage of all these processors, cores and threads.

She said that engineering should be focused on making the framework go and not just running software.

Crawford said that by returning to a simpler way of doing things, software can catch up with advances in silicon. This will make teraflops on the desktop not just a feasible technical accomplishment, but a useful one as well.

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