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Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture, 5th Edition
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Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture, 5th Edition

by Linda Null, Julia Lobur
March 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
744 pages
26h 5m
English
Jones & Bartlett Learning
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REVIEW OF ESSENTIAL TERMS AND CONCEPTS

  1. Explain what is meant when we say that a program or system is memory bound. What other types of bindings have we discussed?

  2. What does Amdahl’s Law tell us about performance optimization?

  3. Which of the means is useful for comparing rates?

  4. For what kinds of data is the arithmetic mean inappropriate?

  5. Give a definition for optimum performance.

  6. What is a price-performance ratio? What makes it hard to apply?

  7. What is the shortcoming of using MIPS or FLOPS as a measure of system throughput?

  8. How is the Dhrystone benchmark different from Whetstone and Linpack?

  9. What are the deficiencies in the Whetstone, Dhrystone, and Linpack benchmarks that are addressed by the SPEC CPU benchmarks?

  10. Explain the term benchmarketing ...

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ISBN: 9781284123043