CPSC 2031 What do you really need to know about computers today? Where are we in development?

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CPSC 2031 What do you really need to know about computers today? Where are we in development?

CPSC 2032 Video: Machine That Changed The World  Episode 1 Giant Brains

CPSC 2033 Computers have become  pervasive  important  critical to the economy

CPSC 2034 ENIAC

CPSC 2035 ENIAC 50 feet 30 feet

CPSC 2036 Kinds of Computers  Personal computer Personal computer  Handheld (PDA) Handheld (PDA)  Workstation Workstation  Mainframe Mainframe  Supercomputer Supercomputer

CPSC 2037 Personal computers  IBM, Dell, HP, Apple Macintosh  Windows XP, MacOS  single user  cheap  mass market software

CPSC 2038 Notebooks  more expensive  battery constraints  docking stations  same manufacturers  same operating systems

CPSC 2039 Handheld  PDA – personal digital assistant  Palm, HP, RIM Blackberry  Palm OS, Windows for Handheld  application: addresses, appointments, memo, wireless service with , …

CPSC Workstation  more computing power  more expensive  single-user but networked  Sun, Silicon Graphics (SGI), IBM  a UNIX operating system  professional engineers, scientists, animators  used as server

CPSC Main Frame  multi-user with terminals (timesharing)  proprietary operating systems or Unix-like  expensive  refrigerator-size plus storage devices  controlled environment: climate, secure, UPS, with support staff  banks, insurance, airline reservations, UofC student records

CPSC Supercomputer  very fast  expensive  clusters with parallel processing and shared memory  e.g. IBM, NEC, Cray  research: milky way, DNA, oil exploration, weather forecasting

CPSC Supercomputer  Top 500 supercomputers in world Top 500 supercomputers in world  IBM Blue Gene IBM Blue Gene  Supercomputing in Alberta Supercomputing in Alberta

CPSC The End

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