I work in CAD, and I can assure you that the users of my department’s code are very interested in performance improvements.
Might I suggest that the greatest improvements in CAD performance will come from R&D into CAD techniques and software? At least, that seems to be the case basically everywhere else. Not to belittle computing power but the software to use the raw power tends to be far more critical. If this wasn’t the case, and given that much of the CAD task can be parellelized, recursive self improvement in computer chip self improvement would result in an exponentially expanding number of exponentially improving supercomputer clusters. On the scale of “We’re using 30% of the chips we create to make new supercomputers instead of selling them. We’ll keep doing that until our processors are sufficiently ahead of ASUS that we can reinvest less of our production capacity and still be improving faster than all competitors”.
I think folk like yourself and the researchers into CAD are the greater bottleneck here. That’s a compliment to the importance of your work. I think. Or maybe an insult to your human frailty. I never can tell. :)
Might I suggest that the greatest improvements in CAD performance will come from R&D into CAD techniques and software? At least, that seems to be the case basically everywhere else. Not to belittle computing power but the software to use the raw power tends to be far more critical. If this wasn’t the case, and given that much of the CAD task can be parellelized, recursive self improvement in computer chip self improvement would result in an exponentially expanding number of exponentially improving supercomputer clusters. On the scale of “We’re using 30% of the chips we create to make new supercomputers instead of selling them. We’ll keep doing that until our processors are sufficiently ahead of ASUS that we can reinvest less of our production capacity and still be improving faster than all competitors”.
I think folk like yourself and the researchers into CAD are the greater bottleneck here. That’s a compliment to the importance of your work. I think. Or maybe an insult to your human frailty. I never can tell. :)