The Effects of Future Computer Hardware on Business Management Information Systems (HTM 304) Spring 2007 Section 02/03 Valentin Kifumbi Stuart Pierce Jeremy Quinton

The Changing World From fire to supercomputers

Then and Now Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) Worlds Smallest Web Server

Affects on Businesses  Worldwide market place  Efficiency and Productivity  Safety  Speed and Pace

Objectives  Future Trends in Computer Hardware  Recommendations for Businesses

Scope  Computer Hardware limited to: CPU, Memory, Motherboards, and Graphic Cards  Recommendations will be general, geared to all types of businesses

Methodology  Personal Information  Library and books  Internet

The future of the Central Processing Unit (CPU)

AMD Mid-2007? CPU (Barcelona)

More Barcelona

Late 2007? Intel CPU (Penryn)

More near-future trends

Nehalem in 2008?

Multi-Core Evolution

Prototype 80-core teraflop CPU from Intel

Closer look at 80 core CPU

Up to 256 MB RAM stacked on the CPU

Advantages of more on-die memory

Increase in specialized microprocessors

Combining specialized chips with general-purpose chips

Motherboards or Mainboards

Intel Series 3 (Bearlake) Chipset

PCI Express 2.0 doubles the PCI Express bandwidth shown

PCI-Express to have more power for your graphics card

Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)

Next-generation Random Access Memory (RAM)

Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (MRAM)

Phase-change RAM (PRAM ) 500x faster than flash memory, ½ the power

Hard Drives

Patterned Media increases storage density

Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) increases storage density

Samsung 32GB Flash Drive available today for $529 “SILENT. boot times on my laptop were cut more than half.”

Optical Storage

In-Phase Holographic Storage 300 GB per disc! Recording Reading

Next generation graphics from ATI 1GB model 700 million transistors - up to 320 stream processors H.264 and VC-1 support Hardware High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP), High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) 128-bt high-dynamic range rendering (HDR) rendering Requires watts of power

ATI’s next generation graphics chip, the R600

Recommendations  Plan the use of IT  Managing the computing infrastructure  Managing the enterprise application  Protect information asset  Manage outsourcing relationships

Plan the use of IT  Align information system  Communicate IS  Develop and enforce IS

Managing the computing infrastructure  Align infrastructure  Create, operate, and maintain  Product standards  Track and monitor resolution  Manage staff

Managing the enterprise application  Develop new application  Maintain system  Manage development staff

Outsourcing  Advantages  Disadvantages

Questions?