COIS 1010H Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Onedrive, Flickr, Floating-Point Unit
2 Jan 2018
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We"ll never be tested on things that are in the book and not in lecture (e. g. , lecture material only). Cpu (central processing unit) and memory are the two most important parts. Motherboard is the main component that holds it all together. Graphics cards make computers work much faster (not only for gaming). The idea of using servers (large powerful computer) elsewhere that are shared among a community of users. You can rent time on these computers (researchers do this). This idea is similar to what was going on in the 60"s (people paying time to rent access to these servers to run calculations). On a chip, we now have multiple cores. The typical tasks that the cores are taking on are not necessarily easy to share (e. g. , one core doing the downloading, one core doing the emails). Nowadays we tend to get computers that have lots of cores but it"s hard to actually use all of those.
