This list compares various amounts of computing power in instructions per second organized by order of magnitude in FLOPS. Scientific E notation index:...
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computing, computer performance is the amount of useful work accomplished by a computer system. Outside of specific contexts, computer performance is estimated...
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To help compare different orders of magnitude, the following lists describe various mass levels between 10−67 kg and 1052 kg. The least massive thing...
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Computer performance by orders of magnitude See: Outline of computing See: Outline of computer science History of computing hardware Analog computers...
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delay could reduce performance. Different types of memory have different accessing time to the memory. Thus, by choosing a suitable type of memory, designers...
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engineering Computer architecture Microarchitecture Multiprocessing Computer performance by orders of magnitude Human–computer interaction Computer network...
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model the whole human brain. Computer performance by orders of magnitude Exascale computing Petascale computing List of hypothetical technologies "What...
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Petascale computing (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from April 2014)
total of 133 septillion floating-point operations. Exascale computing Computer performance by orders of magnitude Category:Petascale computers Zettascale...
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Exascale computing (redirect from Exascale computer)
Superconducting computing Neuromorphic engineering Big data Computer performance by orders of magnitude Zettascale computing Kogge, Peter, ed. (1 May 2008)....
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Floating point operations per second (category Units of frequency)
for Mersenne primes, is sustaining 1,354 teraFLOPS. Computer performance by orders of magnitude Exascale computing Gordon Bell Prize LINPACK benchmarks...
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complementary methods of performing input/output (I/O) between the central processing unit (CPU) and peripheral devices in a computer (often mediating access...
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summer, is a digital circuit that performs addition of numbers. In many computers and other kinds of processors, adders are used in the arithmetic logic...
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diagram. Computer Computer hardware History of computing hardware Processor design Computer network Computer performance by orders of magnitude After the...
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of side-channel attacks plaguing modern computer architectures. Many of these attacks measure slight, nondeterministic variations in the execution of...
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Fortier, Paul (April 1993). "Systematic Design of Pipelined Recursive Filters". IEEE Transactions on Computers. 42 (4): 413–426. doi:10.1109/12.214688. Yu-Ting...
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CPU cache (category Computer memory)
A CPU cache is a hardware cache used by the central processing unit (CPU) of a computer to reduce the average cost (time or energy) to access data from...
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Translation lookaside buffer (category Computer memory)
Anita; Jouppi, Norman P. (1992). "A Simulation Based Study of TLB Performance". ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News. 20 (2): 114–123. doi:10.1145/146628...
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Arithmetic logic unit (category Computer arithmetic)
microprocessors. Modern integrated circuit (IC) transistors are orders of magnitude smaller than those of the early microprocessors, making it possible to fit highly...
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Reconfigurable computing (redirect from High-performance reconfigurable computing)
Reconfigurable computing is a computer architecture combining some of the flexibility of software with the high performance of hardware by processing with flexible...
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In computer architecture, millicode is a higher level of microcode used to implement part of the instruction set of a computer. The instruction set for...
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Instructions per second (redirect from Millions of instructions per second)
floating-point benchmark Million service units (MSU) Computer performance by orders of magnitude Performance per watt Data-rate units US, Dell. "Technical Resources...
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(10): 909–910 von Neumann, John. Collected Works. Parhami, Behrooz (2010). Computer arithmetic: algorithms and hardware designs (2nd ed.). New York: Oxford...
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a program switch each time. Since modern computers typically execute instructions several orders of magnitude faster than human perception, it may appear...
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Trusted Execution Technology (section Chain of trust)
LaGrande Technology) is a computer hardware technology of which the primary goals are: Attestation of the authenticity of a platform and its operating...
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Carry-save adder Adding machine Adder-subtractor Foundations Of Digital Electronics by Elijah Mwangi Beltran, A.A., Nones, K., Salanguit, R.L., Santos...
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a constant state of paging and page faults, slowing most application-level processing. This causes the performance of the computer to degrade or even...
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Microsecond (category Orders of magnitude (time))
584542 years of microseconds fit in 64 bits: (2**64)/(1e6*60*60*24*365.25). International System of Units Jiffy (time) Orders of magnitude (time) Picosecond...
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Virtual thread (section Other uses of the term)
concurrency by many orders of magnitudes while the actual parallelism achieved is limited by available execution units and pipelining offered by present processors...
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processing the same data on a single thread, potentially by two or more orders of magnitude due to overheads such as inter-process communication and synchronization...
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Instruction path length (category Analysis of algorithms)
In computer performance, the instruction path length is the number of machine code instructions required to execute a section of a computer program. The...
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