The structure and organization of virtually all modern computer is based on a single theoretical model of computer design.
What is The Von Nuemannn Stucture?
100
The inability of the sequential one-instrution-at-a-time Von Nuemann model to handle today's large scale problems
What is The Von Nuemann Bottleneck?
100
A communication system that allows processors to exchange messages and data.
What is a interconnection network?
100
If you can't build something to work twice as fast, build it to do two things at once. The result will be identical.
What is the principle of the Non-Von Nuemann architecture?
100
The first computer to achieve a speed of 1 million floating point operations per second, one mega flop in the mid 1960's
What is the control data 6600?
200
The four major subsystems
What is Memory, Input/Output, Arithmetic/logic unit (ALU), and the Control Unit?
200
The study of techniques that makes efficient use of parallel architectures.
What is Parallel Algorithms?
200
The first technique that is used to design massively parallel systems.
What is SIMD (Single Instruction Stream/Multiple Data Stream) Parallel Processing?
200
The nontraditional approaches to computer organization. They are asking the question 'is there a different way to design and build computers that can solve harder problems?"
What are the concepts of the non-Von Neumann architectures.
200
The first machine to achieve 1 billion floating point operations per second, one gigaflop in the 1980'S.
What is The Cray X-MP
300
A key characteristic of the Von Neumann architecture, in which one instruction at a time is fetched from memory and passed to the control unit, where it is decoded and executed.
What is Sequential execution of instructions?
300
The full name for SIMD
What is Single Instruction Stream/Multiple data stream?
300
A much more interesting and much more widely used form of parallelism in comparison to SIMD Parallel Processing.
What is MIMD (Multiple Instruction Stream/Multiple Data Stream) Parallel Processing?
300
Building computers not with one processor but with tens, hundreds, or even thousands.
What is Parallel Processing?
300
The year in which the Intel corporation announced that its Ultra computer had successfully become the word first teraflop machine.
What is 1996?
400
The three distinct phases in which the execution of a program is done
What is fetch, decode and execute?
400
An ordered collection of values.
What is a Vetcor?
400
A new form of MIMD Parallel Processing.
What is Grid Computing?
400
The opposite of the non-von Neumann architecture.
What is the Von Neumann architecture?
400
The $55 million computer that contained 9,072 Pentium Perl processors and on December 16th 1996 achieved a sustained computation speed of one trillion operations per second.
What is Ultra Computer?
500
These operations move information between or within the different compents of the computer.
What is data transfer?
500
Widely used form of parallel processing in which the entire processor rathe than just the ALU is replicated and every processor is capable of executing its on separate program in its own private memory at its own rates.
What is MIMD Processing/ Multiple Instruction or Cluster Computing?
500
A totally new design unrelated to the Von Neumann architecture in which computers are designed according to the principals of quantum mechanics.
What is Quantum Computing?
500
The Spelman students who know the most about the non-von Neumann architectures.
Who are Mariah Cowling, Jett Bagley, Carlie Odemwingie and Christina Lambert?
500
As of mid 2011 the fastest computer in the world built by fujitsu at the IRKEN advanced institute for computational science in Kolbe Japan