computer architecture
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- noun
- /kəmˈpjuːtər ˈɑːrkɪtɛktʃər/
- Specialized
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arquitectura de computadora
- A report published this year by the National Research Council, a government advisory group, looked at eight computing technologies, including digital communications, databases, computer architectures, and artificial intelligence, tracing government-financed research to commercialization.
It's the computer architecture, systems control, whatever, you know, it's this the software and the hardware that controls like our industrial stuff.
- It's the computer architecture, systems control, whatever, you know, it's this the software and the hardware that controls like our industrial stuff.
- So computer architecture, databases, maybe operating systems, benchmarks are the way you measure progress.
Examples
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Computer architectures have evolved, though, and today accessing memory accounts for the major bottleneck.
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Writing efficient programs for such computer architectures is an ongoing challenge, as is handling the increasing amounts of data from astronomical simulations and observations.
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Her research interests are in computer architecture and systems, parallel computing, and power.
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Users generally must understand the target parallel computer architecture, and must carefully write their programs to efficiently use that architecture.
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His research interests include computer security, computer architecture, web-based distance education, and parallel processing.
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His name was Dr. Maxey, and he taught the more complicated courses like data structures and computer architecture.
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Based on our results, we conclude that data locality is critical for the performance of a map algebra implementation on modern computer architectures.
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At the same time, computer architectures have evolved from being sequential and uniform to being parallel and heterogeneous.
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Parallel computing allows us to take advantage of modern computer architectures and alleviate the burden of the computational cost in multi-scale simulations.
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Taking a course on computer architecture gave me insights into how hardware and software interact within a system.
Synonyms
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The way a computer's parts and programs are arranged and work together
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The internal design of a computer chip that shows how its parts work together to run instructions
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Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward noun–noun compound where 'architecture' (structural design) is narrowly specified by 'computer', so the overall meaning — the design/organization of a computer system — follows directly from the constituents. This compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically and would be readily inferred by a B1 learner who knows both words, even if the term is technical.
Etymology
The term computer architecture comes from building architecture: just as an architect makes a plan showing rooms and how people move, a computer architect plans the computer's parts and how they work together. That's why computer architecture means 'the design and organization of a computer'.