• 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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    supercomputer is a type of computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. The performance of a supercomputer is commonly...
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  • The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence 33.86×1015: Tianhe-2's LINPACK performance, June 2013 36.8×1015: 2001 estimate...
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    processor, is the primary processor in a given computer. Its electronic circuitry executes instructions of a computer program, such as arithmetic, logic, controlling...
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  • resource usage. Performance testing, a subset of performance engineering, is a computer science practice which strives to build performance standards into...
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  • point operations per second (FLOPS, flops or flop/s) is a measure of computer performance in computing, useful in fields of scientific computations that require...
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    mainstream personal computers by using high-performance graphics cards, a high core-count CPU with higher raw performance and higher-performance RAM. Gaming PCs...
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    In computer science and computer engineering, computer architecture is a description of the structure of a computer system made from component parts. It...
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    electronic computers can perform generic sets of operations known as programs, which enable computers to perform a wide range of tasks. The term computer system...
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    still exploit these programs' weaknesses and win consistently, but computer performance had advanced past the intermediate (single-digit kyu) level. The...
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    and to estimate the performance of systems too complex for analytical solutions. Computer simulations are realized by running computer programs that can...
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  • internationally. SPEC benchmarks and tools are widely used to evaluate the performance of computer systems; the test results are published on the SPEC website. Official...
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    Computer hardware includes the physical parts of a computer, such as the central processing unit (CPU), random-access memory (RAM), motherboard, computer...
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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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  • In computing, performance per watt is a measure of the energy efficiency of a particular computer architecture or computer hardware. Literally, it measures...
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    High-performance computing (HPC) is the use of supercomputers and computer clusters to solve advanced computation problems. HPC integrates systems administration...
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  • High-Performance Embedded-Microprocessor". VLSI Design. 2013: 1–10. doi:10.1155/2013/425105. Patterson, David; Hennessy, John (2009). Computer Organization...
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    software, as well as high performance computing. Frequency scaling was the dominant reason for improvements in computer performance from the mid-1980s until...
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    on each computer, or different hardware. Clusters are usually deployed to improve performance and availability over that of a single computer, while typically...
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  • The PR (performance rating, P-rating, or Pentium rating) system was a figure of merit developed by AMD, Cyrix, IBM Microelectronics and SGS-Thomson in...
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  • theory, and formal methods Computer systems – including computer architecture and computer engineering, computer performance analysis, concurrency, and...
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  • This is a historical list of fastest computers and includes computers and supercomputers which were considered the fastest in the world at the time they...
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    A computer network is a collection of communicating computers and other devices, such as printers and smart phones. In order to communicate, the computers...
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  • to unobtainable hardware. Increasing the precision and volume of computer performance data. Introducing abilities that are not normally possible on real...
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  • Grosch's law (category Computer architecture statements)
    stated as Computer performance increases as the square of the cost. If computer A costs twice as much as computer B, you should expect computer A to be...
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  • Wirth's law (category Computer architecture statements)
    Wirth's law is an adage on computer performance which states that software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster. The adage is...
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  • A heuristic evaluation is a usability inspection method for computer software that helps to identify usability problems in the user interface design. It...
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  • CPU-bound (category Computer performance)
    rather than single-core performance. The concept of CPU-bounding was developed during early computers, when data paths between computer components were simpler...
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  • Inference computer technologies for knowledge processing Computer technologies to process large-scale data bases and knowledge bases High-performance workstations...
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  • included with Microsoft Windows systems. It provides information about computer performance and running software, including names of running processes, CPU and...
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