COIS 2300H Assignment #1 Complete Solution

Question: #8931

COIS 2300H Assignment #1

You are to research a computer organization/computer architecture topic and present
your findings in a research paper. You should read various reference materials to gather
information, which then should be presented in a logically organized and coherent
paper. You should read at least 3 or 4 distinct reference sources and list them at the end
of your paper. Online references are fine if there are from a reputable source (i.e. you
cannot use Wikipedia).

Some possible subject areas are:
CPU Chips: Compare/contrast different manufacturer offerings
GPUs: Performance, computational speed versus memory speed
Video surveillance environments (bandwidth, resolution, recording storage)
Storage Medium (SSD, Various DVD technologies, High density disks, Disk arrays)
Computer Systems (PCs, Mainframes, Mobile, Massively parallel computers)
HPC Clusters (SharcNet, Google, Wikipedia's server farm)
Buses, I/O systems, caches, RAM, etc. (USB3, Firewire)

Networks: Home routers, The WWW, search engines
Or anything else you can think of that's hardware related. The possibilities are limitless. Your paper must focus on the performance of the subject hardware. An analysis of the configuration and technical specifications and how those decisions affect performance. You should choose something that you are interested in as a subject. Your paper should be about 4-5 pages long (1200 words) and include a bibliography (you do not need toworry about footnotes). Your subject should be unique within the class. You are expected to do individualised work.

Submissions will be done through Blackboard.
Please be aware of the rules regarding plagiarism. If you aren’t sure if what you are doing consists of plagiarism, please contact me before you submit the paper. If you have copied someone else’s work (including cutting and pasting from the Internet), you will receive a zero on this assignment and the department chair and dean will be notified of the infraction.

Solution: #8959

COIS 2300H Assignment #1 Complete Solution

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