Instructions per second (IPS) is a measure of a computer's processor speed. For complex instruction set computers (CISCs), different instructions take...
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the number of instructions by the number of CPU clock cycles. The number of instructions per second and floating point operations per second for a processor...
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calculations. For such cases, it is a more accurate measure than instructions per second.[citation needed] Floating-point arithmetic is needed for very...
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Data-rate units (redirect from Kilobits per second)
terabits per second Binary prefix Bit rate List of interface bit rates Orders of magnitude (bit rate) Orders of magnitude (data) Metric prefix Instructions per...
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per instruction for a program or program fragment. It is the multiplicative inverse of instructions per cycle. The average of Cycles Per Instruction in...
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operations/second, then performance per watt can be written as operations/watt-second. Since a watt is one joule/second, then performance per watt can...
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per day (cpd) and cycles per year (cpy). Cycles per instruction (CPI) Cycles per metre Heinrich Hertz Instructions per cycle (IPC) Instructions per second...
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using less energy per instruction. Out of order CPUs can usually do more instructions per second because they can do several instructions at once. In a pipelined...
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based on a mix of instructions typical of scientific applications ("Gibson Mix") with the results in kilo Instructions Per Second (kIPS) per Longbottom, Roy...
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commonly measured in floating-point operations per second (FLOPS) instead of million instructions per second (MIPS). Since 2022, exascale supercomputers...
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Pumarejo Airport, also known as Valledupar Airport, IATA code VUP Instructions per second, as "VAX Unit of Performance" The viewer/user/player role in transmedia...
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Computer (redirect from Second-generation of computers)
"jump" instructions (or branches). Furthermore, jump instructions may be made to happen conditionally so that different sequences of instructions may be...
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Intel MCS-51 (section Instruction set)
8051 could thus execute 1 million one-cycle instructions per second or 500,000 two-cycle instructions per second. Enhanced 8051 cores are now commonly used...
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sometimes measured in millions of instructions per second (MIPS), although the definition depends on the instruction mix measured. Examples of integer...
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41 million instructions per second Dhrystone MIPS and SPEC integer rating of 27.9. It is approximately twice as fast as the i386 or i286 per clock cycle...
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IBM 709 (section Instruction and data formats)
B instructions have, in sequence, a 12-bit instruction code (with the second and third bits set to 0 to distinguish them from type A instructions), a...
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intelligence, by estimating the computational cost (measured in instructions per second) of various operations of human intelligence, and comparing it...
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Linux kernel on comp.os.linux: [...] MIPS is short for Millions of Instructions Per Second. It is a measure for the computation speed of a processor. Like...
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million pixels/second Actual real-world polygons (per frame): range of 500–600k at 30 FPS, 250–300k at 60 FPS Instructions per second: 6,000 MIPS (million...
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to 34.5K instructions per second. The first IBM PC in 1981 had 16 KB or 64 KB of memory and would process about 330K instructions per second. As a result...
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CPU cache (redirect from Second-level cache)
both executable instructions and data. A single TLB can be provided for access to both instructions and data, or a separate Instruction TLB (ITLB) and...
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5 million operations (for an effective CPU speed of about 1100 instructions per second). The first design for a program-controlled computer was Charles...
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individual instructions perform simpler operations. The goal is to offset the need to process more instructions by increasing the speed of each instruction, in...
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Kenbak-1 (section Instruction table)
clock speed of 1 MHz), but the program speed averaged below 1,000 instructions per second due the many clock cycles needed for each operation and slow access...
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small instruction manual, which describes how the instructions are encoded. Also, it may define short (vaguely) mnemonic names for the instructions. The...
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so that they complete more instructions per clock cycle, thus achieving a lower CPI (cycles or clock cycles per instruction) count, although they may run...
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megapixel display with 1024×1024 1-bit pixels, and one million instructions per second (MIPS) of processing power. It was also often said that it should...
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Intel 8080 (section Commands, instructions)
cycles, the 8080 was capable of executing several hundred thousand instructions per second. Later, two faster variants, the 8080A-1 and 8080A-2, offered improved...
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number of types of computer instructions so that it can operate at a higher speed (perform more millions of instructions per second, or MIPS). The Santa Clara...
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arithmetic performance, often reported in DMIPS (Dhrystone millions of instructions per second) DiskSpd – Command-line tool for storage benchmarking that generates...
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