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An Inroduction to PC

 * Why Know abt Comp Arch and at what level ?
 * Computer architecture
 * Microarchitecture
 * Supercomputing in India


 * Computer Performance
 * Computer performance
 * Instructions per second
 * FLOPS
 * Floating point


 * Parallel Computing and its type
 * Parallel computing
 * Instruction-level parallelism


 * Parallel Algorithms
 * Programming model
 * Message Passing Interface
 * POSIX Threads
 * Thread (computing)
 * Application programming interface
 * Execution model


 * Computer Model
 * Von Neumann architecture
 * Turing machine
 * Stored-program computer


 * Parallel Architecture
 * Dataflow architecture


 * Moores law and need of parallelism
 * Moore's law
 * Multi-core processor
 * CPU power dissipation