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Essential Knowledge: Hardware

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In order to implement efficient computer programs, it’s essential to understand the basic hardware structure of computers. In this chapter we examine the hardware components of a typical computer (CPU, memory, storage, GPU, etc.) focusing on issues that are relevant for software development and algorithm design. We also explore concepts like binary representations of numbers and strings, assembly language, multiprocessors, and the memory hierarchy.

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Notes

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    http://amturing.acm.org/p558-lamport.pdf.

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    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/232488.

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    http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.063001.

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    http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/processors/000007073.html.

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    http://images.nvidia.com/content/tesla/pdf/Apps-Catalog-March-2016.pdf.

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  1. Amazon, Menlo Park, CA, USA

    Guy Lebanon

  2. Voicera, Santa Clara, CA, USA

    Mohamed El-Geish

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Lebanon, G., El-Geish, M. (2018). Essential Knowledge: Hardware. In: Computing with Data. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98149-9_2

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