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    central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor, or just processor, is the primary processor in a given computer. Its electronic...
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    computer architecture. As a result, shared memory computer architectures do not scale as well as distributed memory systems do. Processorprocessor and...
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    sending output to a printer. This would lead to processor being "idle" (unused). To keep the processor busy at all times, the execution of such a program...
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  • A word processor (WP) is a device or computer program that provides for input, editing, formatting, and output of text, often with some additional features...
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    An embedded system is a specialized computer system—a combination of a computer processor, computer memory, and input/output peripheral devices—that has...
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    A front-end processor (FEP), or a communications processor, is a small-sized computer which interfaces to the host computer, a number of networks, such...
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  • A processor register is a quickly accessible location available to a computer's processor. Registers usually consist of a small amount of fast storage...
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    Machine (Russian) "Elbrus" processor info (Russian) "Elbrus-S" processor info (Russian) МВ3S1/C "Elbrus-S" based processor module (Russian) (I) PowerPoint...
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  • the Cell processor can be split into four components: external input and output structures, the main processor called the Power Processing Element (PPE)...
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  • In computing, a vector processor or array processor is a central processing unit (CPU) that implements an instruction set where its instructions are designed...
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  • Look up processor in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Processor may refer to: Processor (computing) Central processing unit (CPU), the hardware within...
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  • language processing (NLP) is a subfield of computer science and especially artificial intelligence. It is primarily concerned with providing computers with...
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  • In computing and computer science, a processor or processing unit is an electrical component (digital circuit) that performs operations on an external...
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    Processor power dissipation or processing unit power dissipation is the process in which computer processors consume electrical energy, and dissipate this...
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    by using RISC microprocessors. The varieties of RISC processor design include the ARC processor, the DEC Alpha, the AMD Am29000, the ARM architecture...
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    use a general purpose graphics processing unit (GPGPU) as a modified form of stream processor (or a vector processor), running compute kernels. This...
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  • image processing is the use of a digital computer to process digital images through an algorithm. As a subcategory or field of digital signal processing, digital...
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    of computer architectures: Quantum computer vs. Chemical computer Scalar processor vs. Vector processor Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) computers Register...
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    A multi-core processor (MCP) is a microprocessor on a single integrated circuit (IC) with two or more separate central processing units (CPUs), called...
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    graphics processor". IEEE Computer Society. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Retrieved 1 November 2019. Information Processing Society...
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    but the definition of MSU varies from processor to processor so that MSUs are useless for comparing processor performance. World's Top Supercomputer...
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  • possibly connected to other processing elements via a network, network on a chip, or cache hierarchy. processor node A processor in a multiprocessor system...
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    A quantum computer is a computer that exploits quantum mechanical phenomena. On small scales, physical matter exhibits properties of both particles and...
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    signal processing became widely used with specialized digital signal processor chips in the 1980s. A signal is a function x ( t ) {\displaystyle x(t)}...
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    Sycamore is a transmon superconducting quantum processor created by Google's Artificial Intelligence division. It has 53 qubits. In 2019, Sycamore completed...
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    computational logic and design of computer hardware, from individual processor components, microcontrollers, personal computers to supercomputers and embedded...
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  • Processor design is a subfield of computer science and computer engineering (fabrication) that deals with creating a processor, a key component of computer...
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    the processor was idle. Computer scientists observed that the overall performance of the machine could be improved by letting a different process use...
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  • processor is classified as a single instruction, single data (SISD) processor in Flynn's taxonomy. The Intel 486 is an example of a scalar processor....
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    processor (or multiple-issue processor) is a CPU that implements a form of parallelism called instruction-level parallelism within a single processor...
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