Processors
What is the law named after an Intel Co-Founder that involves doubling transistors?
Moore's Law
What is the difference between the abbreviations Gb and GB?
Gigabit (1 billion bits) vs Gigabyte (8 billion bits)
What building block of electronics replaced the old bulky vacuum tubes?
Transistors
Operating Systems
What is the name of our Discord bot that loves to spew fun facts?
Peter
Why are GPUs so much better at physics processing than CPUs?
Massive core count = better parallel processing
What is the memory that is built into a CPU called?
Cache
What year was the iPhone released?
2007
What does API stand for?
Application Programming Interface
What room are we in?
KEC 1005
What is the CPU architecture most common in smartphones and Apple's M-Series chips?
RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) or ARM
What does it mean for memory to be "volatile"?
When power is lost, the data is lost too
Who is considered the "father" of modern computers?
Alan Turing (also Charles Babbage)
What is the set of code that is stored on the motherboard that runs before loading the OS?
BIOS or UEFI
What was the original name for this club?
(No Lifelines)
The Homelab Club
What does IPC stand for?
Instructions Per (Clock) Cycle
What is swap memory?
When a a computer uses a portion of the SSD to serve as system RAM
What operating system originating in 1969 formed the basis for Linux and MacOS?
Unix
What is the most commonly used coding language?
JavaScript
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
What is the 3rd derivative of position?
JERK!
+1600pts
What is the term for the size of individual transistors on a CPU (measured in nanometers)
Bonus: What is the transistor size for the recently announced Panther Lake processors from Intel?
Process Node
Bonus: 18A (angstroms)
+200pts
What is the difference between NVMe and SATA SSD's?
Bonus: Name the protocols they run on.
Bandwidth, Latency, Protocol
Bonus: NVMe & AHCI
+100pts each
What company created the first personal computer with a GUI and a mouse?
Bonus: Name the computer
Apple
Bonus: The Macintosh
+200pts
What is the main difference between how computers handle a compilation coding language vs. an interpretive coding language?
Bonus: Name a language that is a mix of both
A compilation language must have the entire source code translated to machine code at once whereas an interpretive language has each line translated as the program runs.
Bonus: Java
+200pts
What model is our server?
Bonus: How much RAM is in it?
Dell PowerEdge R620
Bonus: 32GB
+200pts