COMPUTER SYSTEMS

← Back to document page

COMPUTER SYSTEMS Sotirios G. Ziavras, Department of Electrical and COMPUTER Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey 07102, Keywords COMPUTER organization, processor, memory hierarchy, peripheral devices, bus architectures, multiprocessors, multicomputers, computation models, supercomputers. Contents 1. Introduction 2. Sequential/Conventional Computers Basic Resources Central Processing Unit Main Memory Associative Memory: Instruction and Data Caches Peripheral Devices Resource Connectivity COMPUTER Performance Program Control system Software 3. Parallel Computers Multiprocessors Multicomputers Vector Supercomputers Glossary Bus: A set of wires used to transmit data, addresses, or control signals between directly-connected components of a COMPUTER .

computer is conveniently assumed to be a five-level hierarchy. The five levels correspond to network ports for connecting to the outside world (these ports may not be necessarily available, as a computer may be a standalone information processing and/or computing machine), peripheral or mass-storage devices for (applications and system) program and

  Network, Computer, System, Computer systems